Edward Richard Sprigg Canby graduated from West Point in 1839.  He had a
distinguished career in the Civil War, preventing Confederate General
Sibley from reaching California and leading the troops that took Mobile in
1865.  After the war, Canby was named army commander of the Department of
the Columbia.  He went to California where he participated in the Modoc
War.  The Modoc band. entrenched in the lava beds south of Tule Lake,
resisted army attacks so effectively that a peace conference was arranged
in 1873.  Captain Jack (Kintpuash), the Modoc leader, interrupted the
proceedings and shot Canby, along with the president of the peace
commissioners and a Methodist minister.  Captain Jack took Canby's uniform
and wore it in battle after escaping.  The murders caused an outrage
across the country, and President Grant demanded retribution for the death
of the Civil War hero.  Ultimately, Captain Jack was executed, and the
Modocs were went east to a remote part of the Indian Territory.