George Byron Currey (April 4, 1833 – March 6, 1906) was a pioneer, lawyer, soldier, farmer, and editor in the U.S. state of Oregon.
A native of Indiana, he served as an officer in the 1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and then the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment], before being appointed commander of the District of the Columbia at the end of the American Civil War as well as in the Snake War in 1865.
[3] In the fall of 1865, Colonel Currey was planning a winter campaign against the Snake Indians in eastern Oregon.
His successor Lieutenant Colonel John M. Drake was released from service in December, so the planned winter campaign never got started.
[4][5] It remained for George Crook to institute winter campaigns, like Curry intended, that brought that war to a close.