1. Charles Candy was a career soldier in the United States Army who served as an officer in the volunteer Union Army during the American Civil War.
11 Facts About Charles Candy
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Charles Candy 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.
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Charles Candy served under Richard S Ewell in the 1st Dragoons.
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Charles Candy served on the staff of Charles Pomeroy Stone at the time of the Battle of Ball's Bluff.
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When Geary was wounded in the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Charles Candy succeeded to brigade command.
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Charles Candy next saw action leading the First Brigade of Geary's Second Division, XII Corps, at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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When XII Corps was transferred west under the command of Major General Joseph Hooker later in 1863 to relieve the Army of the Cumberland besieged at Chattanooga, Charles Candy was transferred with his brigade.
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Charles Candy was injured early in the Battle of Lookout Mountain, and he missed the Battle of Ringgold Gap.
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When XII Corps and XI Corps were combined into Hooker's XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberland, Charles Candy became commander of a brigade in Geary's second division.
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Charles Candy led it in Major General William T Sherman's Atlanta Campaign until August 4,1864.
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Charles 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.