Edward Canby
United States Army officer
Years: 1817 - 1873
Edward Richard Sprigg Canby (November 9, 1817 – April 11, 1873) is a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War, Reconstruction era, and the Indian Wars.
He is the only United States general to be killed during the later wars, and he dies when assassinated at a peace talk with the Modoc in Northern California.
