Edwin Vose Sumner Sr.
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Edwin Vose Sumner Sr. (1797 - 1863)

Edwin Vose (Edwin Vose) "Bull, Bull Head" Sumner Sr.
Born in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married 31 Mar 1832 in Sackets Harbor, Jefferson, New York, United Statesmap
Died at age 66 in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United Statesmap
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Edwin Vose Sumner Sr. is Notable.

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"Major General Edwin Vose Sumner "Bull" or "Bull Head" (January 30, 1797 – March 21, 1863) was a career United States Army officer who became a Union Army general and the oldest field commander of any Army Corps on either side during the American Civil War.[1] His nicknames "Bull" or "Bull Head" came both from his great booming voice and a legend that a musket ball once bounced off his head."

"Sumner fought in the Black Hawk War, with distinction in the Mexican–American War, on the Western frontier, and in the Eastern Theater for the first half of the Civil War. He led the II Corps of the Army of the Potomac through the Peninsula Campaign, the Seven Days Battles, the Maryland Campaign, and the Battle of Fredericksburg."

Sources

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Vose_Sumner
  • James V. Murfin, The Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and Robert E. Lee's Maryland Campaign September 1862 (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2004), 30.
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 February 2021), memorial page for Edwin Vose Sumner Sr. (30 Jan 1797–21 Mar 1863), Find a Grave Memorial no. 5844484, citing Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .




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