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Edwin Vose Sumner (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.
Aug 11, 2023 · In the 1911 census the family are living in Caversham near Reading and John is working as a blacksmith in coachbuilding. He enlisted with the Rifle Brigade and was killed in action on the 23rd of July 1915 at Hooge in Belgium.
The caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts.
May 22, 2018 · On May 22, 1856, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives caned a Senator into unconsciousness. by Cara Giaimo May 22, 2018. The cartoonist John L. Magee’s rendering of the attack on Charles...
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Civil War. After the Civil War began, Sumner was among the Radical Republicans who advocated immediate abolition of slavery and the destruction of the Southern planter class. Although like-minded on slavery, the Radicals were loosely organized and disagreed on issues such as the tariff and currency.
Jan 3, 2020 · Major General Edwin V. Sumner was a Union commander who rose to corps command in the Army of the Potomac during the early years of the Civil War.
Jul 24, 2019 · The caning of Charles Sumner is probably the most famous violent attack in Congress, but it is far from the only one.
