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‘Bull Head’ Depending on your source, Major General Edwin V. Sumner went by the nickname of either “Bull Head,” “Bull of the Woods” or just plain “Bull.” He was given that moniker, so the scribes say, because 1) a musket ball bounced off his head during the Mexican War, leading his comrades to joke that …
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