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 "Bull" or "Bull Head" came both from his great booming voice and a legend that a musket ball once bounced off his head.
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
There were five corps in the Union Army designated as II Corps during the American Civil War. These formations were the Army of the Cumberland II Corps commanded by Thomas L. Crittenden from October 24, 1862, to November 5, 1862, later renumbered XXI Corps; the Army of the Mississippi II corps led by William T. Sherman from January 4, 1863, to January 12, 1863, renumbered XV Corps; Army of the Ohio II Corps commanded by Thomas L. Crittenden from September 29, 1862, to October 24, 1862, transferred to Army of the Cumberland; Army of Virginia II Corps led by Nathaniel P. Banks from June 26, 1862, to September 4, 1862, and Alpheus S. Williams from September 4, 1862, to September 12, 1862, renumbered XII Corps; and the Army of the Potomac II Corps from March 13, 1862, to June 28, 1865.
Maj. Gen. Darius N. Couch
Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock and his II Corps division commanders during the Overland Campaign. Standing, from left to right, are Brig. Gen. Francis C. Barlow, Maj. Gen. David B. Birney, and Brig. Gen. John Gibbon.
Maj. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys