Sumner family papers
Contributors: Sumner, Edwin Vose, 1835-1912; Sumner, Samuel S. (Samuel Storrow), 1842-1937
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
Subjects: Campaigns; Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862; Personal narratives; Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862; Military training camps; History
Description: Correspondence, legal documents, reports, and photographs of Edwin V. Sumner (1797-1863) and his sons, Edwin Vose Sumner (1835-1912) and Samuel Storrow Sumner (1842-1937), all military officers.  Includes material on Civil War battles in Antietam, Md., and Fredericksburg, Williamsburg, and northern Virginia.  Edwin Vose Sumner I's 1855 audience with Frederick William IV, King of Prussia, is documented, as is the training of soldiers at Fort Reno in the Indian Territory (later El Reno, Okla.) in the 1880s.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Charlotte Sumner Pratt, 1989.

Sumner (Summers) family.

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