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Home Town Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Last Address Brookline, Massachusetts
Date of Passing Jul 26, 1937
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Wall/Plot Coordinates Plot: Section East, Site 1107
US Army General. During the Civil War he served on the staff of his father, General Edwin Vose Sumner. Afterwards he remained on active duty, serving in the western United States during the Indian Wars. In May, 1898 he was appointed Brigadier General and commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, serving in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, leading his brigade at the Battle of Las Guasimas, and commanding the Army's Cavalry Division when General Joseph Wheeler became ill. Sumner commanded his brigade at the Battle of San Juan Hill for which he earned the Silver Star, and the Siege of Santiago, for which he earned promotion to Major General. After the war Sumner served as attaché at the US Embassy in London, commanded a brigade during the China Relief Expedition, a military district in the Philippines, and the Army's Department of the Missouri, Department of the Southwest and Department of the Pacific before retiring in 1906. He was the brother of General Edwin Vose Sumner, Jr.
Description The American Indian Wars, or Indian Wars, were the multiple armed conflicts between European governments and colonists, and later American settlers or the United States government, and the native peoples of North America. These conflicts occurred across the North American continent from the time of earliest colonial settlements until 1924. In many cases, wars resulted from competition for resources and land ownership as Europeans and later Americans encroached onto territory which had been inhabited by Native Americans for the previous centuries. There was population pressure as settlers expanded their territory, generally pushing indigenous people northward and westward. Warfare and raiding also took place as a result of wars between European powers; in North America, these enlisted their Native American allies to help them conduct warfare against each other's settlements.
Many conflicts were local, involving disputes over land use, and some entailed cycles of reprisal. Particularly in later years, conflicts were spurred by ideologies such as Manifest Destiny, which held that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast on the North American continent. In the 1830s, the United States had a policy of Indian removal east of the Mississippi River, which was a planned, large-scale removal of indigenous peoples from the areas where Americans were settling. Particularly in the years leading up to Congressional passage of the related act, there was armed conflict between settlers and Native Americans; some removal was achieved through sale or exchange of territory through treaties.
