Charles Candy Charles Candy ( August 7 , 1832 – October 28 , 1910 ) was a career soldier in the United States Army who served as an officer in the volunteer Union Army during the American Civil War . He commanded an Ohio regiment and , frequently , a brigade , during the war , and played a role in the defense of Culp ' s Hill during the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg . Early life and career . Candy was born in Lexington , Kentucky . He joined the United States Army on May 14 , 1850 , as an enlisted man with the rank of private and subsequently served in a wide variety of garrisons and outposts . He served under Richard S . Ewell in the 1st Dragoons . He was promoted to corporal in March 1853 . Candy was honorably discharged in May 1855 . Candy resumed his military career in January 1856 as a private in the 1st U . S . Infantry . In May 1856 , he was promoted to sergeant . By the eve of the Civil War , he was a sergeant major . Discharged from the regular army on January 1 , 1861 , Candy became a volunteer clerk in the Department of the Ohio . Civil War service . Following the outbreak of the Civil War and the firing on the Union garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor , Candy was appointed on September 21 , 1861 , as a captain and assistant adjutant general of volunteers . He served on the staff of Charles Pomeroy Stone at the time of the Battle of Ball ' s Bluff . Candy resigned his staff position on December 3 , 1861 . He was commissioned colonel of the 66th Ohio Infantry on December 17 of that year . Candy led his regiment under Nathaniel Banks in what became II Corps of John Pope ' s Army of Virginia , serving in John W . Geary ' s brigade of Christopher C . Augur ' s division . When Geary was wounded in the Battle of Cedar Mountain , Candy succeeded to brigade command . Banks ' s corps missed the Second Battle of Bull Run , and Candy was absent when the corps — newly dubbed XII Corps , Army of the Potomac — fought in the Battle of Antietam . XII Corps was in reserve during the Battle of Fredericksburg , but it participated in Maj . Gen . Ambrose Burnside ' s Mud March . Candy next saw action leading the First Brigade of Geary ' s Second Division , XII Corps , at the Battle of Chancellorsville . He commanded the same brigade at the Battle of Gettysburg , arriving on the Baltimore Pike , behind the Union right , late on the first day of the fight ( July 1 , 1863 ) . Late in the day , Geary led the brigades of George S . Greene and Candy to Little Round Top to protect the Union left flank . The brigade returned to the right early the next day and took part in the defense of Culp ' s Hill . Candy ' s brigade was in reserve , except when Geary — trying to go to the relief of the left flank of the army — got lost and took it and the brigade of George A . Cobham , Jr . , down the Baltimore Pike in the wrong direction . When XII Corps was transferred west under the command of Maj . Gen . Joseph Hooker later in 1863 to relieve the Army of the Cumberland besieged at Chattanooga , Candy was transferred with his brigade . It fought at the Battle of Wauhatchie . Candy was injured early in the Battle of Lookout Mountain , and he also missed the Battle of Ringgold Gap . When XII Corps and XI Corps were combined into Hooker ' s XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberland , Candy became commander of a brigade in Geary ' s second division . He led it in Maj . Gen . William T . Sherman ' s Atlanta Campaign until August 4 , 1864 . Candy was mustered out of the volunteer service on January 14 , 1865 , and he received a brevet appointment as a brigadier general on March 13 , 1865 . Postbellum career . After the war , Candy served as chief clerk in the Quartermaster General ' s office of the War Department . From 1888 to 1906 , he was commissary of subsistence for the Southern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers . Candy died in Dayton , Ohio . He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery .