SUMNER, Edwin Vose

Affiliation:  Union

Born: January 30 1797, Boston MA

Died: March 21 1863, Syracuse NY

Pre-War Profession: Commissioned 2nd Lt in US Army 1819, frontier duty, Mexican war, governor of New Mexico Territory, commanded Department of the West.

War Service: March 1861 appointed Brig. Gen. in Regular Army, commanded II Corps in Peninsula campaign (w), Seven Pines, July 1862 promoted Maj. Gen. of Volunteers, South Mountain, Antietam, commanded Left Grand Division at Fredericksburg, asked to be relieved after Hooker's appointment to command the Army of the Potomac, assigned to command the Dept of Missouri.

Post War: Sumner went to his daughter's home in Syracuse, New York, to rest, where he fell ill with fever and died on March 21, 1863