Name/Title
Canby, Edward R.S, U.S. Army Brevit Major General, Photo, c. 1848Entry/Object ID
P1991.1H.141Description
Canby, Edward R.S, U.S. Army Brevit Major, Photo, c. 1848. Head/Shoulders portrait of Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, taken in uniform of Brevit Major. (Canby's sword in St. Joseph Museum collection 546/12766).
Canby was an officer during the Mexican, Civil & Indian Wars. He defeated Sibley in New Mexico and pushed the Confederates back to Texas, and later returned east in an administrative position as assigned by U.S. Grant. He was the only U.S. General to die in the Later Indian Wars in 1873. See Museum Graphic, Summer, 1954, Vol VI, No. 3.
Handwritten on back: "Brig. Gen. E.R.S. Canby, wearing Brevit Major General Uniform. "
Original digital scan on History CD 01Made/Created
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1848Notes
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Notes
546/12766 A, 546/12766 B, P1991.01H.00144Provenance
Notes
Copy of photograph of oil painting