Edwin Vose Sumner
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Edwin Vose Sumner 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. His nicknames "
Edwin Vose Sumner and his staff ca. 1861-1862
An image of Sumner by Mathew Brady or Levin C. Handy
The Chickahominy – Sumner's Upper Bridge: 1862 watercolour by William McIlvaine
Memorial and burial place of Major Gen. E. V. Sumner and Hannah F. Sumner, Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, New York
Battle of Seven Pines
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The Battle of Seven Pines, also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks or Fair Oaks Station, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the Ameri
Edwin Vose Sumner
…wrote to his wife, "Sumner had proved that he was even a greater fool than I had supposed & had come within an ace of having us defeated." At the Battle of Seven Pines, however, Sumner's initiative in sending reinforcing troops across the dangerously rain-swollen Chickahominy River prevented a Union disaster. He…
Franklin's corps retreating from the Battle of Fair Oaks (from a sketch by Alfred R. Waud)
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, Commanding
Brig. Gen. Samuel P. Heintzelman
Brig. Gen. Erasmus D. Keyes