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Photographer: Brian Scott
Caption: Gen. Edwin V. Sumner
Additional Description: In February 1861, Brig. Gen. David E. Twiggs was dismissed from the Army for treason by outgoing U.S. President James Buchanan, and on March 12, 1861, Sumner was nominated by the newly inaugurated Lincoln to replace Twiggs as one of only three brigadier generals in the regular army, with date of rank March 16. Sumner was thus the first new Union general created by the secession crisis. At Antietam, he commanded the II Corps.
Submitted: September 27, 2015, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p331124
File Size: 0.242 Megabytes

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