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unusual facts about Edwin Vose Sumner, Jr.



Edwin Vose Sumner

The II Corps, commanded during the war by Sumner, Darius N. Couch, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Andrew A. Humphreys, had the deserved reputation of being one of the best in the Eastern Theater.

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.

Edwin Vose Sumner, Jr.

In 1890 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Major Job Sumner.

Navajo Wars

Col. Edwin Sumner conducted a campaign against the Navajo in 1851.

Velarde, New Mexico

Sometime after the battle, Col. Edwin Vose Sumner, who later served as military governor of New Mexico between 1851 and 1853, sent a Major Gordon with a detachment of infantry to establish a post below the Rio Grande canyon in present Velarde, but no sooner had his men settled in, the unit was ordered to return to Taos.


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