SUMNER, EDWIN VOSE (1797-1863)

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SUMNER, EDWIN VOSE (1797-1863) , American soldier, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, and entered the United States army in 1819. He served in the Black Hawk War and in various Indian campaigns. In 1838 he commanded the cavalry instructional

establishment

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement,
late
- LATE
Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

Carlisle

CARLISLE
CARLISLE, EARLS OF

Pennsylvania

PENNSYLVANIA
PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

. He took part in the Mexican War as a major, and for his bravery at Moline del Rey he received the brevet rank of colonel. In 1857 he commanded an expedition against the

Cheyenne

CHEYENNE
CHEYENNE (Sioux for " of
alien
- ALIEN (Lat. alienus)
speech ")

Indians. At the outbreak of the Civil War, four years later, Sumner had just been promoted brigadier-general U.S.A. and sent to replace Sidney Johnston in command on the Pacific

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

. He thus took no part in the first campaign of the Civil War. But in the autumn he was brought back to the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

to command a division, and soon afterwards, as a major-general U.S.V., a corps in the army that was being organized by McClellan. This corps, numbered II., retained its independent existence throughout the war, and under the command of Sumner, Couch, Han-cock and

Humphreys

HUMPHREYS, ANDREW ATKINSON (1810-1883)

it had the deserved reputation of being the beat in the Union army. Sumner, who was by far the oldest of the generals in the army of the Potomac, led his corps through-out the peninsular campaign, was wounded during the Seven Days' Battle, and received the brevet of major-general U.S.A., and was again wounded in the battle of Antietam. When Burnside succeeded to the command of the army of the Potomac he grouped the corps in " grand divisions," and appointed Sumner to command the right grand division. In this capacity the old cavalry soldier took part in the disastrous battle of Fredericksburg, in which the II. corps suffered most severely. Soon afterwards, on Hooker's appointment to command the army, Sumner was relieved at his own request. He died suddenly, on the 21st of

March

1863, while on his way to assume supreme command in Missouri.

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