Answer:
That was Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner
Explanation:
Edwin Vose Sumner was a United States Army officer who became a Union Army general. He was the oldest field commander of any Army Corps on either side during the American Civil War. He led the second Corps of the Army of the Potomac through the Peninsula Campaign, the Seven Days Battles, the Maryland Campaign, and the Right Grand Division of the Army during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Sumner fought in the Black Hawk War, with distinction in the Mexican–American War, on the Western frontier, and in the Eastern Theater for the first half of the Civil War.
if I remember correctly it's the Sumerians
This passage is about the speech of President Jackson in Congress, where he defended the process of remorse of the Indians.
The use of the word "progessive" refers to the continuation of a process begun earlier, where the Indians were massacred and expelled from their territories to the detriment of the white man's civilization. The former president used that term as a way to slow down an attitude that today would be understood as barbarism, but one that is part of US history.
Lack of equipment i guess