The son of Rev. Thomas & Sarah Sumption, in 1860 he was a merchant presumably living in Harford County, Maryland, although he is not found in that census and is in the 1863-65 draft registration as a twenty-seven-year-old resident of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 6" tall and had light hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in Lancaster July 23, 1862, and mustered into federal service there August 11 as 2nd lieutenant of Co. H, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry. From December 19, 1862, through May 9, 1863, he commanded the ambulance corps in 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Corps, and was not in action with the regiment at the battle of Chancellorsville. He honorably discharged with his company May 15, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Baltimore, Maryland, June 12, 1864, mustered into federal service there at Camp Bradford June 15 as 2nd lieutenant of Co. F with the hundred-day organization of the 11th Maryland Infantry, a company he helped recruit. He discharged with his company September 30, 1864. He then attempted to obtain a commission with the Veteran Reserve Corps but was unsuccessful.
His obituary in the Baltimore Sun, all too typically, is rife with errors regarding his military service, claiming, "When the call to arms was made in 1860 [false - 1862] he was enrolled as a private [false - 2nd lieutenant] in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers. After three years' [false - nine months] service . . . he saw some of the hardest fighting of the memorable struggle [false - the regiment fought only at Chancellorsville, and Sumption wasn't with them]." The obituary fails to mention his service with the 11th Maryland Infantry.
He married Baltimore-born Rose Wheeler and fathered Mary (b. @1867) and Susan (b. @1869), one of whom married George A. Baker. He died at his home reportedly from Bright's disease.
His birth year, typical of the times, is questionable and is here based on his claim at his first enlistment, but he is shown as nineteen in the 1850 census, twenty-two in the 1863-65 draft registration, and thirty-five in the 1870 census.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in Lancaster July 23, 1862, and mustered into federal service there August 11 as 2nd lieutenant of Co. H, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry. From December 19, 1862, through May 9, 1863, he commanded the ambulance corps in 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Corps, and was not in action with the regiment at the battle of Chancellorsville. He honorably discharged with his company May 15, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Baltimore, Maryland, June 12, 1864, mustered into federal service there at Camp Bradford June 15 as 2nd lieutenant of Co. F with the hundred-day organization of the 11th Maryland Infantry, a company he helped recruit. He discharged with his company September 30, 1864. He then attempted to obtain a commission with the Veteran Reserve Corps but was unsuccessful.
His obituary in the Baltimore Sun, all too typically, is rife with errors regarding his military service, claiming, "When the call to arms was made in 1860 [false - 1862] he was enrolled as a private [false - 2nd lieutenant] in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers. After three years' [false - nine months] service . . . he saw some of the hardest fighting of the memorable struggle [false - the regiment fought only at Chancellorsville, and Sumption wasn't with them]." The obituary fails to mention his service with the 11th Maryland Infantry.
He married Baltimore-born Rose Wheeler and fathered Mary (b. @1867) and Susan (b. @1869), one of whom married George A. Baker. He died at his home reportedly from Bright's disease.
His birth year, typical of the times, is questionable and is here based on his claim at his first enlistment, but he is shown as nineteen in the 1850 census, twenty-two in the 1863-65 draft registration, and thirty-five in the 1870 census.
The son of Rev. Thomas & Sarah Sumption, in 1860 he was a merchant presumably living in Harford County, Maryland, although he is not found in that census and is in the 1863-65 draft registration as a twenty-seven-year-old resident of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 6" tall and had light hair and blue eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in Lancaster July 23, 1862, and mustered into federal service there August 11 as 2nd lieutenant of Co. H, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry. From December 19, 1862, through May 9, 1863, he commanded the ambulance corps in 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Corps, and was not in action with the regiment at the battle of Chancellorsville. He honorably discharged with his company May 15, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Baltimore, Maryland, June 12, 1864, mustered into federal service there at Camp Bradford June 15 as 2nd lieutenant of Co. F with the hundred-day organization of the 11th Maryland Infantry, a company he helped recruit. He discharged with his company September 30, 1864. He then attempted to obtain a commission with the Veteran Reserve Corps but was unsuccessful.
His obituary in the Baltimore Sun, all too typically, is rife with errors regarding his military service, claiming, "When the call to arms was made in 1860 [false - 1862] he was enrolled as a private [false - 2nd lieutenant] in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers. After three years' [false - nine months] service . . . he saw some of the hardest fighting of the memorable struggle [false - the regiment fought only at Chancellorsville, and Sumption wasn't with them]." The obituary fails to mention his service with the 11th Maryland Infantry.
He married Baltimore-born Rose Wheeler and fathered Mary (b. @1867) and Susan (b. @1869), one of whom married George A. Baker. He died at his home reportedly from Bright's disease.
His birth year, typical of the times, is questionable and is here based on his claim at his first enlistment, but he is shown as nineteen in the 1850 census, twenty-two in the 1863-65 draft registration, and thirty-five in the 1870 census.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-eight in Lancaster July 23, 1862, and mustered into federal service there August 11 as 2nd lieutenant of Co. H, 122nd Pennsylvania Infantry. From December 19, 1862, through May 9, 1863, he commanded the ambulance corps in 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Corps, and was not in action with the regiment at the battle of Chancellorsville. He honorably discharged with his company May 15, 1863.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of twenty-nine in Baltimore, Maryland, June 12, 1864, mustered into federal service there at Camp Bradford June 15 as 2nd lieutenant of Co. F with the hundred-day organization of the 11th Maryland Infantry, a company he helped recruit. He discharged with his company September 30, 1864. He then attempted to obtain a commission with the Veteran Reserve Corps but was unsuccessful.
His obituary in the Baltimore Sun, all too typically, is rife with errors regarding his military service, claiming, "When the call to arms was made in 1860 [false - 1862] he was enrolled as a private [false - 2nd lieutenant] in Company H, One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers. After three years' [false - nine months] service . . . he saw some of the hardest fighting of the memorable struggle [false - the regiment fought only at Chancellorsville, and Sumption wasn't with them]." The obituary fails to mention his service with the 11th Maryland Infantry.
He married Baltimore-born Rose Wheeler and fathered Mary (b. @1867) and Susan (b. @1869), one of whom married George A. Baker. He died at his home reportedly from Bright's disease.
His birth year, typical of the times, is questionable and is here based on his claim at his first enlistment, but he is shown as nineteen in the 1850 census, twenty-two in the 1863-65 draft registration, and thirty-five in the 1870 census.
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