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EDWIN VOSE See also: American soldier, was See also: born at See also: Boston, Massachusetts, and entered the See also: United States army in 1819
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He served in the Black Hawk War and in various See also: Indian See also: campaigns
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In 1838 he commanded the cavalry instructional establishment at See also: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
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He took See also: part in the Mexican War as a major, and for his bravery at See also: Moline del Rey he received the brevet See also: rank of colonel
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In 1857 he commanded an expedition against the Cheyenne See also: Indians
.
At the outbreak of the See also: Civil War, four years later, See also: Sumner had just been promoted brigadier-general U.S.A. and sent to replace See also: Sidney See also: Johnston in command on the Pacific See also: coast
.
He thus took no part in the first See also: campaign of the Civil War
.
But in the autumn he was brought back to the See also: East 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 See also: independent existence throughout the war, and under the command of Sumner, See also: Couch, Han-See also: cock and Humphreys it had the deserved reputation of being the beat in the Union army
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Sumner, who was by far the See also: oldest of the generals in the army of the See also: Potomac, led his corps through-out the See also: peninsular campaign, was wounded during the Seven Days' See also: Battle, and received the brevet of major-general U.S.A., and was again wounded in the battle of See also: Antietam
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When Burnside succeeded to the command of the army of the Potomac he grouped the corps in " See also: grand divisions," and appointed Sumner to command the right grand division
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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 See also: Hooker's
See also: appointment to command the army, Sumner was relieved at his own See also: request
.
He died suddenly, on the 21st of See also: March 1863, while on his way to assume supreme command in
See also: Missouri
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