Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da aka tura XII Corps zuwa yamma karkashin jagorancin Manjo Janar Joseph Hooker daga baya a 1863 don sauƙaƙe rundunar sojojin Cumberland da aka kewaye a Chattanooga, an tura Candy tare da brigade. Ya yi yaƙi a Yaƙin Wauhatchie. Candy ya ji rauni a farkon yakin Lookout Mountain
, kuma ya kuma rasa yakin Ringgold Gap. Lokacin da XII Corps da XI Corps suka haɗu a cikin Hooker's XX Corps na Army of the Cumberland, Candy ya zama kwamandan brigade a sashen na biyu na Geary. Ya jagoranci shi a Major General William T. Sherman na Atlanta Campaign har zuwa Agusta 4, 1864. An cire Candy daga aikin sa kai a ranar 14 ga Janairu, 1865, kuma ya karbi takardar izini a matsayin brigadier janar a ranar 13 ga Maris, 1865.