The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-07 00:00:00

GENERAL SUMNER;

The New York papers publish the following

sketch of the late General Sumner :

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" Major-General Edwin Vose Sumner was born
in the year 1796, in Boston. He entered the ser-
vice of the United States in the Second Infantry, as
a second lieutenant, on the 3d of March, 1819. In
July, 1823, he was promoted to a first lieutenancy
in the same regiment, and after remaining in it
abcut four years was appointed an assistant com-
missary of subsistence. He was transferred to the
cavalry service in 1833, with the rank of captain
of dragoons, and from this time found a constant
field for his fine soldierly qualities in service on
the Indian frontier until the breaking out of the

Mexican war, except during a brief interval when
he commanded the school of cavalry practice at
Carlisle. His Mexican career was brilliant indeed.

While on his way to the seat of war in 1846 he
was assigned the command of the Regiment of
Mounted Rifles by General Scott, a position that
involved an immense amount of labour, as a larger
part of the men were raw recruits. But Major
Sumner—such was his rank at this time—worked
energetically, and in a short time the corps became
distinguished for its profiency. He led them in
the celebrated cavalry charge of Cerro Gordo,
April 18, 1847, was wounded, and breveted lieu-
tenant-colonel. At Contreras and Cherubusco he
commanded the reserves, and at the battle of 111olino
del Rey the entire cavalry, holding in check 5,000
Nlexican lancers who menaced the American left.
His valour od this occasion earned him a brevet
colonelcy, the rank dating from September 8,1847.
In July, 1848, he was made a full lieutenant-colonel
and appointed to the First Regiment of United
States Dragoons. After the war he was put in
command of the Department of New Mexico. The
Government despatched him to Europe on a special
mission in 1854, in the fulfilment of which he was
presented to Napoleon 111., who extended to him
unusual courtesies. The next year found him pro-
moted to the colonelcy of the First Cavalry, then
serving in the West against the Indians. After-
wards, being in command of Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, he became unpopular with the War De-
partment, over which Jefferson Davis then pre-
sided, owing to political affiliations, and, although
instrumental in promoting order and happiness in
the disturbed territory, was removed from the post
and ordered to field service, and again confronted
with hostile Indians. The command of the Depart-
ment of the West was assigned him in 1858, the
head-quarters being at St. Louis. General Scott
selected him in February, 1861, to accompany Mr.
Lincoln from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington.
Twelve days after Mr. Lincoln's inauguration
Colonel Sumner was appointed brigadier-general
in the regular army vice General Twiggs, igno-
miniously dismissed from the service. Trouble being
anticipated in the Department of the Pacific, he was
ordered to take command there, but in March, 1862,
was recalled to the East and given command of the
First Army Corps in the Army of the Potomac. At
the siege of Yorktown he commanded the left wing,
and during the subsequent campaign before Rich-
mond bore a conspicuous part. His name Savage
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signe d Gen. Sumner, and with it he took part in the
battle of Antietam, where he was wounded. At
army the army
Fredericksburg he commanded the right grand divi-
sion of the Army of the Potomac, the brunt of the
fight thus falling upon his forces. Later he was
under command of Gen. Burnside. On his way west
to succeed Gen. Curtis in the command of the De-
partment of Missouri, General Sumner stopped at
Syracuse to visit his eon-in-law, and while there he
was seized with the illness which caused his sudden
demise on Saturday. General Sumner was noted
as a strict disciplinarian, but was none the less
esteemed therefore by his officers and men in all
the several commands that he has held."

Mr. Marcus Stone contributes to the Royal Aca-
demy a picture of " Napoleon at a Cottage Fire on
the Retreat from Waterloo." The baffled Emperor sits
moodily on a stool, perhaps reading pictures in the smoul •
dering wood ashes. He is wet and travel splashed. Gen..
Bertrand is holding his overcoat—the famous reditloto qrts
—to dry at the fire. It is the cottage of an old soldier he has
taken shelter in—one of the veterans of Aboukir and the
Pyramids, as we learn from a Manicluke sabre on the wi,
and a rude print of (ne of the Egyptian battles, nouw allo.
dust and smoke-stained, and hanging awry. Abe. 7:
pottage,
peasants—including the ore-armed master aut. It
group points
g peasant
a scared boy and girl, and two handscaufet yeo
women is a
sNOw women,
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srpesupdeucitufuhdc)r-.
• and naturally. The
the moral of the picture unobtrusive wed old soldier. One
only male tiller of the soil is ama
husband is in the ranks,
perhaps stiffen-
young woman's
corn of La Haye Sainte ; the
ing among the trampled.
der the sod, and she must
lial(Lne oThhis
carry the spade even in her mourning. Outside the door,
under a heavy rain sky, you. see the escort talking to the
crowding peoants• The picture is capitally conceived and
painted• it i. quite a pleasure to see such good work from
a man of Mr. Marcus Stone's age and standing.

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