Charles Candy

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Charles Candy
Born(1832-08-07)August 7, 1832
Lexington, Kentucky
DiedOctober 28, 1910(1910-10-28) (aged 78)
Dayton, Ohio
Buried
Arlington National Cemetery
AllegianceUnited States of America
Union
Service/branchUnited States Army
Union Army
Years of service1850–1861
1861–1865
Rank Colonel
Brevet Brigadier General
Commands heldCandy's Brigade, XII Corps
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

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.[1]

Candy resumed his military career in January 1856 as a private in the

sergeant major. Discharged from the regular army on January 1, 1861, Candy became a volunteer clerk in the Department of the Ohio.[2]

Civil War service

Following the outbreak of the Civil War and the firing on the Union garrison at

66th Ohio Infantry on December 17 of that year.[1]

Candy led his regiment under

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.[1]

Candy next saw action leading the First Brigade of Geary's Second Division, XII Corps, at the

George A. Cobham, Jr., down the Baltimore Pike in the wrong direction.[3]

When XII Corps was transferred west under the command of Major General

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.[1][4]

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.[1]

Candy died in Dayton, Ohio. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.[5]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Eicher, page 162.
  2. ^ Pfanz, pp. 223-24.
  3. ^ Pfanz, page 130; Greene, pages 169-203.
  4. ^ Pfanz, pages 224.
  5. ^ Arlington National Cemetery webpage for Charles Candy Retrieved on 2008-09-19

References

  • "Death Closes Career of Gen. Charles Candy." Dayton Daily News, October 29, 1910.
  • Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of Rebellion: Compiled and Arranged From Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of the Adjutant Generals of the Several States, The Army Registers and Other Reliable Documents and Sources. Dayton, OH: Morningside Books, 1978.
    ISBN 978-0-89029-046-0
    . First published 1908 by Dyer Publishing.
  • Eicher, John H., and
    ISBN 0-8047-3641-3
    .
  • Greene, A. Wilson. "'A Step All-Important and Essential to Victory': Henry W. Slocum and the Twelfth Corps on July 1–2, 1863." In Three Days at Gettysburg: Essays on Confederate and Union Leadership, edited by
    ISBN 0-87338-629-9
    .
  • Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg: Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
    ISBN 0-8078-2118-7
    .

Further reading
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