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 | | began, Canby was named colonel of the Nineteenth Infantry at Fort Defiance, New Mexico Territory. |
 | | He was wounded by guerrillas at White River, Arkansas, on November 6, 1864, but recovered and led the land campaign to capture Mobile, Alabama (March through April 1865), in cooperation with Gen. Gordon Granger |
 | | Canby received the surrender of Confederates under Gen. Richard Taylor on May 4, 1865, and that of the Trans-Mississippi forces of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith |
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