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    <title>Sumner family papers, 1836-1940 (bulk 1858-1862)</title>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, legal documents, reports, and photographs of Edwin V. Sumner and his sons, Edwin Vose Sumner and Samuel Storrow Sumner, all military officers.  Includes material on Civil War battles in Antietam, Md., and Fredericksburg, Williamsburg, and northern Virginia.  Documents Edwin V. Sumner's 1855 audience with Frederick William IV, King of Prussia; Sumner's disagreement with General William S. Harney; a military expedition against the Sioux in 1855; and the training of soldiers at Fort Reno in the Indian Territory (later El Reno, Okla.) in the 1880s.</abstract>
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  <note>Sumner (Summers) family.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">IV, King of Prussia</namePart>
      <namePart>Frederick William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1861</namePart>
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      <namePart>Harney, William S. (William Selby)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1889</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Summers family</namePart>
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      <namePart>Sumner family</namePart>
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    <topic>Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Dakota Indians</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <topic>Wars</topic>
    <temporal>1815-1875</temporal>
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    <topic>Military training camps</topic>
    <geographic>Oklahoma</geographic>
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    <geographic>El Reno (Okla.)</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Personal narratives</topic>
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    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Williamsburg (Va.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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      <title>Edwin V. Sumner papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Sumner, Edwin V. (Edwin Vose),</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1863</namePart>
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      <title>Edwin Vose Sumner papers</title>
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      <namePart>Sumner, Edwin Vose,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1912</namePart>
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      <title>Samuel Storrow Sumner papers</title>
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      <namePart>Sumner, Samuel S. (Samuel Storrow),</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1842-1937</namePart>
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