See also:

• EDWIN, AEDUINI
• EDWIN, JOHN (1749–1790)

EDWIN VOSE See also:

• SUMNER, CHARLES (1811--1874)
• SUMNER, CHARLES RICHARD (1790-1874)
• EDWIN VOSE SUMNER (1797-1863)
• SUMNER, JOHN BIRD (1780-1862)
• SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM (1840-1910)

SUMNER (1797-1863)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American soldier, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, and entered the See also:

• UNITED

United States See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army in 1819 . He served in the See also:

• BLACK
• BLACK, ADAM (1784-1874)
• BLACK, JEREMIAH SULLIVAN (1810–1883)
• BLACK, WILLIAM (1841-1898)

Black See also:

• HAWK (O. Eng. hafoc or heafoc, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch havik, Ger. Habicht; the root is hab-, haf-, to hold, cf. Lat. accipiter, from capere)

Hawk See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War and in various See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• CAMPAIGNS

campaigns . In 1838 he commanded the See also:

• CAVALRY (Fr. cavalerie, Ger. Kavallerie or Reiterei, derived ultimately from late Lat. caballus, horse)

cavalry instructional See also:

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

establishment at See also:

• CARLISLE
• CARLISLE, EARLS OF

Carlisle, See also:

• PENNSYLVANIA
• PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF

Pennsylvania . He took See also:

• PART

part in the Mexican War as a See also:

• MAJOR
• MAJOR (Lat. for " greater ")
• MAJOR (or MAIR), JOHN (1470-1550)

major, and for his bravery at See also:

• MOLINE

Moline del Rey he received the See also:

• BREVET (a diminutive of the Fr. bref)

brevet See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• COLONEL (derived either from Lat. column, Fr. colonne, column, or Lat. corona, a crown)

colonel . In 1857 he commanded an expedition against the See also:

• CHEYENNE
• CHEYENNE (Sioux for " of alien speech ")

Cheyenne See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians . At the outbreak of the See also:

• CIVIL

Civil War, four years later, See also:

• SUMNER, CHARLES (1811--1874)
• SUMNER, CHARLES RICHARD (1790-1874)
• SUMNER, EDWIN VOSE (1797-1863)
• SUMNER, JOHN BIRD (1780-1862)
• SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM (1840-1910)

Sumner had just been promoted brigadier-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general U.S.A. and sent to replace See also:

• SIDNEY
• SIDNEY (or SYDNEY), ALGERNON (1622-1683)
• SIDNEY, SIR HENRY (1529-1586)
• SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP (1554-1586)

Sidney See also:

• JOHNSTON, ALBERT SIDNEY (1803–1862)
• JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER (1849-1888)
• JOHNSTON, ALEXANDER KEITH (1804-1871)
• JOHNSTON, ARTHUR (1587-1641)
• JOHNSTON, J
• JOHNSTON, JOSEPH EGGLESTON (1807-1891)
• JOHNSTON, SIR HENRY HAMILTON (1858- )

Johnston in command on the Pacific See also:

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

coast . He thus took no part in the first See also:

• CAMPAIGN

campaign of the Civil War . But in the autumn he was brought back to the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East to command a See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division, and soon afterwards, as a major-general U.S.V., a See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps in the army that was being organized by McClellan . This corps, numbered II., retained its See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent existence throughout the war, and under the command of Sumner, See also:

• COUCH, DARIUS NASH (1822-1897)

Couch, Han-See also:

• COCK, EDWARD (1805-1892)

cock and See also:

• HUMPHREYS, ANDREW ATKINSON (1810-1883)

Humphreys it had the deserved reputation of being the See also:

• BEAT (a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere)

beat in the See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union army . Sumner, who was by far the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest of the generals in the army of the See also:

• POTOMAC

Potomac, led his corps through-out the See also:

• PENINSULAR

peninsular campaign, was wounded during the Seven Days' See also:

• BATTLE

Battle, and received the brevet of major-general U.S.A., and was again wounded in the battle of See also:

• ANTIETAM

Antietam . When See also:

• BURNSIDE, AMBROSE EVERETT (1824-1881)

Burnside succeeded to the command of the army of the Potomac he grouped the corps in " See also:

• GRAND

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 See also:

• HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
• HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
• HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
• HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
• HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)

Hooker's See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment to command the army, Sumner was relieved at his own See also:

• REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request . He died suddenly, on the 21st of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1863, while on his way to assume supreme command in See also:

• MISSOURI

Missouri .