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.
SPECIAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL’S OFFICE, March 23, 1861. No. 86. Washington, March 23, 1861. Brigadier-General Sumner will, without delay, repair to San Francisco and relieve Brevet Brigadier-General Johnston…
SPECIAL ORDERS, WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL’S OFFICE, March 23, 1861. No. 86. Washington, March 23, 1861. Brigadier-General Sumner will, without delay, repair to San Francisco and relieve Brevet Brigadier-General Johnston…
Olympia Olympia, May 23, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, U.S. Army, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal.: SIR: I have the honor to transmit to you herewith…
SAN BERNARDINO SAN BERNARDINO, June 3, 1861. General E. V. Sumner, U. S. Army, Commander of the Pacific Division: DEAR SIR: I beg to be excused for my presumption in…
Virginia CITY Virginia CITY, June 5, 1861. General SUMNER: My DEAR Sir: The Union men of this portion of our beloved country are very anxious to have aid from the…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, AASA Washington, June 5, 1861. 3rigadier-General SUMNER, U. S. Army, Commanding the Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal.: SIR: The General-in-Chief directs that you act…
CRESCENT CITY CRESCENT CITY, June 24, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, Commanding Pacific Division, U. S. Army: DEAR SIR: In accordance with instructions we herewith transmit to you a…
San Francisco San Francisco, July 10, 1861. General SUMNER, U.S. Army, Commanding Pacific Department, San Francisco: SIR: The president of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company has directed us to make…
Mare Island Mare Island, July 15, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, Headquarters Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. : SIR: Your communication of the 13th of July was…
HEADQUARTERS ‘OF THE ARMY, Washington, July 25, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, U.S. Army, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. : Str: The colonel of ordnance has…
HEADQUARTERS ‘OF THE ARMY, Washington, July 25, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, U.S. Army, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. : Sir: The colonel of ordnance has…
Washington Washington, July 26, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, Commanding Department of the Pacific : Direct your quartermaster and commissary to prepare in advance the stores necessary for the…
Los Angeles Los Angeles, August 8, 1861. General E. V. SUMNER, Commanding, ke. : SIR: Doctor Haywood has just shown me some papers written by one Boyd, deceased, containing charges…
Los ANGELES Los ANGELES, August 9, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco : DEAR SIR: I am constrained by the aspect of political…
Los ANGELES Los ANGELES, August 10, 1861. General E. V. SUMNER, Commanding Pacific Division, San Francisco: SIR: I feel it my duty as an old resident of this place to…
Los ANGELES Los ANGELES, August 10, 1861. General E. V. SUMNER, Commanding Pacific Division, San Francisco: SIR: I feel it my duty as an old resident of this place to…
Los ANGELES Los ANGELES, August 10, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco : DEAR SIR: Since addressing you under yesterday’s date information has…
Los ANGELES Los ANGELES, August 10, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco : DEAR SIR: Since addressing you under yesterday’s date information has…
EUGENE CrrY, LANE COUNTY, OREG. EUGENE CrrY, LANE COUNTY, OREG., August 15, 1861. General E. V. SUMNER, U.S. Army, Commanding Pacific Division, San Francisco, Cal. : DEAR SIR: There is…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, August 16, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, U. S. Army, San Francisco, Cal. : You are to command an expedition into Texas, via Mazatlan,…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, August 16, 1861. Brig. Gen. E. V. SUMNER, U.S. Army, Commanding, &e., San Francisco, Cal. : SIR: A telegram was sent you this day in…
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Washington, August 21, 1861. Brigadier-General SUMNER, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. : SIR: In reply to your letter of the 24th July, the…
WAR DEPARTMENT, October 1, 1861. October 1, 1861. General E. V. SUMNER, Commanding Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal. : SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith a…
Olympia, Wash. Ter. Olympia, Wash. Ter., October 10, 1861. General SUMNER: DEAR SIR: Some two years ago I procured, through the influence of the superintendent of Indian affairs for Oregon…