I am now of the opinion that the wound that Canning received was not received at Shiloh, as he indicated, for reasons which I will reveal at a web article I am now doing up on Canning, at http://www.geocities.com/tfoenander/georgepcanning.htm Several other assumptions will be examined in this article, and a number shown to be incorrect. Canning was obviously never an officer, or a direct aide to General Polk, though he did serve in some minor capacity at the headquarters of that officer. Furthermore, one online web site, as well as another, which tends to rely on this first web site, both try to make the absurd claim that Canning's death, aboard the SHENANDOAH was faked, and that he died in France, after the end of the cruise of the SHENANDOAH. Perusal of all the data available shows how absolutely incorrect and absurd such a claim is, yet there are those who would believe in such nonsense. Although quite a number of factors are known about Canning, there is obviously a lot that he himself tried to keep hidden from those who knew him. Cornelius E. Hunt's account of the cruise of the SHENANDOAH, as almost everyone knows, cannot be relied upon, and Hunt himself did not have a very good reputation amongst most of the other officers of the cruisers.
Anyway, I will pose a number of questions that indicate that Canning was not exactly what he indicated to everyone, though some of the details he provided were true.