Charles Candy (7 August 1832 – 28 October 1910) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.
Biography[]
Charles Candy was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1832, and he joined the US Army in 1850. On 21 September 1861, he was commissioned a captain and served on the staff of Charles Pomeroy Stone at the time of the Battle of Ball's Bluff. On 17 December, he became colonel of the 66th Ohio Infantry, and he was raised to brigade command when John W. Geary was wounded at the Battle of Cedar Mountain. He fought at the Battle of Chancellorsville and then at the Battle of Gettysburg, where he helped to defend Culp's Hill. Later in 1863, his brigade was transferred west, and he was wounded at the Battle of Lookout Mountain before fighting in the Atlanta Campaign. He was mustered out on 14 January 1865 and breveted to Brigadier-General, and he died in Dayton, Ohio in 1910.