Louisa Hawkins Canby
Deceased Person
1818 – 1889
Who was Louisa Hawkins Canby?
Louisa Hawkins Canby was nicknamed the “Angel of Santa Fe” in 1862 for her compassion toward sick, wounded, and freezing Confederate soldiers at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mrs. Canby was the wife of Union Brig. Gen. Edward Richard Sprigg Canby whose order to destroy or hide not only weapons and ammunition but all food, equipment, and blankets prior to any retreat was largely responsible for the Confederates’ misery. Taking pity on her husband’s enemies, Mrs. Canby not only organized other officers’ wives to nurse the sick and wounded among the occupying Confederate forces, but also showed Col. William Read Scurry where fleeing Union forces had hidden blankets and food. Mrs. Canby, said one rebel, “captured more hearts of Confederate soldier [sic] than the old general ever captured Confederate bodies.”
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- Born
- Dec 25, 1818
Paris - Lived in
- Kentucky
- Died
- 1889
- Resting place
- Crown Hill Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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