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the
Civil War, and became the first commander of the Second Army Corps.
He was made major-general of volunteers, July 4, 1862.
He was wounded in the
Peninsula campaign and also at
Antietam.
Upon
Burnside's reorganization of the army, he commanded the Right Grand Division.
When
Hooker was put at the head,
Major-General Sumner was relieved at his own request, and sent to the Department of Missouri.
But he died on the way there, at
Syracuse, New York, March 21, 1863.
(U. S. M. A. 1846) was born in
Putnam County, New York, July 23, 1822, and served in the
Mexican and the
Seminole wars, being brevetted first lieutenant in the former.
In 1855, he resigned from the army and entered mercantile life in New York city, but returned to his profession at the opening of the
Civil War as colonel of volunteers.
He was identified with the Department and Army of the Potomac, first as brigade commander (August, 1861-March, 1862), then as division commander in the Fourth Army Corps to September, 1862, when he was made major-general of volunteers and his division was transferred to the Sixth Corps.
In October, 1862,
Couch was placed at the head of the Second Corps, which he led at
Fredericksburg and at
Chancellorsville.
From June, 1863, to December, 1864, he was at the head of the Department of the Susquehanna, when he was given a division of the Twenty-third Army Corps, and fought at the
battle of Nashville.
He resigned from the army in 1865, and was defeated for governor of
Massachusetts on the
Democratic ticket in the same year.
Subsequently, he was collector of the port of
Boston, and quartermaster-general and adjutant-general of
Connecticut.
He died in
Norwalk, Connecticut, February 12, 1897.
(U. S.M. A. 1840) was born in
Richmond, Virginia, in 1819, and served in the
Mexican War. As
lieutenant-colonel he had a brigade of horse artillery in the Army of the Potomac through the
Peninsula campaign, the artillery reserve at
Antietam, and the artillery of the Right Grand Division at
Fredericksburg.
In November, 1862, he was made brigadier-general of volunteers, and at
Chancellorsville, in command of a brigade in the Second Army Corps he was wounded and captured.
He was exchanged, and after the wounding of
Hancock at
Gettysburg, he had command of the corps for a short time.
Then he spent some time in the Department of the East and later had a brigade in the Second Corps.
He died in
Fort Independence,
Boston Harbor, February 7, 1875.
was born in
Trenton, New Jersey, April 7, 1822, and served in the
Mexican War. He went to the front in the
Civil War as lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth New Jersey Infantry, and later became colonel of the Sixth New Jersey.
In September, 1862, he was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers, and had a brigade in the Third Corps from December, 1862, to March, 1864, and then had consecutively two divisions of the Second Corps.
Several times he took command of the corps during the absence of
Major-General Humphreys.
Mott was brevetted major-general of volunteers in August, 1864, and received the title May 28, 1865, shortly before being mustered out. After the war, he was at one time treasurer of the
State of New Jersey, and died in New York city, November 29, 1884.
was born in
Westminster, Massachusetts, August 8, 1839.
He entered mercantile life, but went to the front in the
Civil War as first lieutenant in the Twenty-second Massachusetts Infantry, and in May, 1862, he was made lieutenant-colonel of the Sixty-first New York Infantry.
By September he had risen to a colonelcy of volunteers.
He fought with the Army of the Potomac in all its battles and was wounded at
Chancellorsville.
From March to July, 1864, he had a brigade in the Second Corps and was made brigadier-general in May.
The rank of major-general of volunteers was given him in October, 1865.
After the war he entered the regular army as colonel, and his chief service was against the Indians in the
West.
In the
Spanish-American War he commanded the United States army, and personally led the
Porto Rico expedition, and upon the reorganization of the Army of the United States he was appointed lieutenant-general (1900), being retired with that rank three years later.
（U. S.M. A. 1844) was born in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1824.
He served in the
Mexican War and in the border troubles in
Kansas, and had risen to the rank of captain when the
Civil War broke out. He was
