The man in command of the Military Division of West Mississippi, and as such the man whom Farragut would have to work with in planning the attack on Mobile, was Maj. Gen. Edward Richard Sprigg Canby, a career soldier.

Canby and Farragut had already decided before the first landings on Dauphin Island that the army could not provide enough men to attack Mobile itself ; furthermore, the Dog River Bar that had impeded bringing CSS Tennessee down now prevented Farragut's fleet from going up.

Although later recognized by both Col. Edward R. S. Canby, Commander of the Department of New Mexico, and Col. Christopher " Kit " Carson of the First New Mexico Vounteers for his sound military abilities, Tappan voluntarily relinquished his seniority rights and joined in signing a petition from among the men of the First Colorado to elevate Chivington, the recent hero of the Glorieta battle to the Colonelcy.

According to Jeff C. Riddle, the Modoc son of the US interpreter and the author of Indian History of the Modoc War ( 1914 ), the Modoc had plotted before the meeting to kill Canby and the other commissioners, as they believed peace was not possible.

In return, they received amnesty for the murders of settlers at Tule Lake, Canby and Thomas.

With Confederate troops moving into southern New Mexico, Col. Canby sent Agent John Ward into Navajo lands to persuade any who might be friendly to move to a central encampment near the village of Cubero where they would be offered the protection of the government.

In his review in The New York Times, Vincent Canby said the film " has much of the manner of a television docudrama, ultimately being a rather comforting celebration of personal triumph over travails so dread and so particular that they have no truly disturbing, larger application.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Swept Away " the most successful fusion of Miss Wertmuller's two favorite themes, sex and politics, which are here so thoroughly and so successfully tangled that they become a single subject, like two people in love.

Colonel Canby had little or no confidence in the hastily recruited, untrained New Mexico volunteers, “ who would not obey orders or obeyed them too late to be of any service .” However, Canby did remark about Carson and his volunteer ’ s “ zeal and energy ”.

In his review for the New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote that Buckaroo Banzai " may well turn out to be a pilot film for other theatrical features, though this one would be hard to top for pure, nutty fun ".

Though Canby was a little better supplied, he saw that defending the entire territory from every possible attack would stretch his forces too thinly.

Judge Elijah Steele of Yreka, California wrote later that when he warned Canby that the Modoc were volatile and he was at risk, Canby replied, " I believe you are right, Mr. Steele, and I shall regard your advice, but it would not be very well for the general in command to be afraid to go where the peace commissioners would venture.

Although he had been offered a command at the express recommendation of Grant, Buell declined it, saying that it would be degradation to serve under either Sherman or Edward Canby because he outranked them both.

Captain Jack's advisers, apparently not attuned to relevant differences between Modoc and Euro-American culture, suggested that the Army would leave in response to killing their leader, General Edward Canby.

Because communication between the fleet and the landing force would be needed, Canby suggested that a contingent of his signal corpsmen be distributed among the major ships of Farragut's attacking force.

Canby decided that a massive frontal assault would fail and instead decided to attack the Confederate left ; to do so, he ordered one of his batteries on his right to redeploy closer to the Confederate line and moved several companies to his right, including Carson's First New Mexico Regiment which crossed the river and took its place in line.

Vincent Canby expressed in a review for The New York Times how he would like to know more about which parts of the story that were derived directly from Andrée's journal and which were speculation.

Film critic Vincent Canby was a bit tougher on the film, and wrote, " Remy and Anne are made for each other, or would have been if The Big Easy were the sophisticated comedy it could have been ... film was directed by Jim McBride who one day is going to come up with a commercial movie that works all the way through, and not just in patches.

" Vincent Canby, in his review for the New York Times, wrote, " film is not to be analyzed too solemnly, though.

" Vincent Canby felt the film was " too shapeless to be the fun that Raiders is, but shape may be beside the point.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times found the film to be " exhausting without being much fun.

Fellow Times film critic Vincent Canby concurred, " It's not the worst movie ever made ; it just seems to be ".

Canby could be a destroyer but appeared to prefer the role of builder.

Canby had no intention of allowing the Modoc to be punished without a trial.

Canby was the only general to be killed during the Indian Wars.

The stronghold can be accessed from the Perez turnoff, off Highway 139 between Tulelake and Canby, California.

Canby forwarded Meacham's request to General Schofield, Commanding General of the Pacific, suggesting that before using force, peaceful efforts should be made.

In his New York Times review, Vincent Canby says this " is no jerry-built science fiction film, but it's a little too simple-minded to be consistently entertaining.

New York Times film critic Vincent Canby gave it a rather negative review, concluding with, " This fascination, on the part of contemporary Japanese filmmakers, with the destruction of their land by fantastic, prehistoric forces only 20 years after Hiroshima, might be of interest to social historians.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times found it difficult to follow both the action scenes and the subtitles at the same time, but stated that " Mr. Woo does, in fact, seem to be a very brisk, talented director with a gift for the flashy effect and the bizarre confrontation.

It is among AFI's 400 movies nominated to be on their list of America's greatest 100 movies In his December 15, 1970 review, Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the movie, " Arthur Penn's most extravagant and ambitious movie, an attempt to capture the essence of the American heritage in the funny, bitter, uproarious adventures of Jack Crabb.

Along the way, it created growth in Willamette Valley towns such as Canby, Aurora, and Harrisburg, which emerged as freight and passenger stations, and provided a commercial lifeline to the part of the river valley above Harrisburg where steamships were rarely able to travel.

Following Roberts ' departure, Canby sent additional reinforcements from the fort's garrison, and assigned several companies of New Mexico volunteers to " watch the movements of the enemy, threaten his flanks and rear, and impede his movements as much as possible.

Canby commanded the Union forces assigned to conduct the campaign against Mobile, Alabama in the spring of 1865.

Thatcher was then appointed to command of the Western Gulf Squadron, immediately commencing operations in co-operation with General Canby, commander of the Army of West Mississippi, in the capture of Mobile, Alabama.

It served in the operations of Maj. Gen. Edward Canby against Mobile, Alabama and fought in the battles of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely.

Canby then believed that he could spare no more than 2, 000, not enough to invest the largest fort, but enough to take Dauphin Island and thereby secure contact between the fleet inside the bay and their support in the gulf.

In his review in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film " an uproarious display of brilliance, nerve, dance, maudlin confessions, inside jokes and, especially, ego " and " an essentially funny movie that seeks to operate on too many levels at the same time ... some of it makes you wince, but a lot of it is great fun ... A key to the success of the production is the performance of Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon ... With an actor of less weight and intensity, All That Jazz might have evaporated as we watched it.

Canby was generally regarded as a great administrator, but he was criticized as a soldier.

" Winters quotes Treasury agent George S. Denison of New Orleans: " General Canby is very active, but his work makes no great show as yet, because it is conducted too quietly and without ostentation.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, " Good sense, if not heaven, should protect anyone who thinks he likes horror films from wasting a price of admission on " Maniac ," a movie that shows how an aging, pot-bellied maniac slices up young women of no great intelligence.

Canby quipped that " Santa's workshop must be the world's largest purchaser of low-grade plywood " and that the flyover sequences with Santa " aren't great.