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His practice was listed as allopath (mainstream) in the Directory of Deceased Physicians.
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Sumner was one of the first physicians in the United States to perform transfusions. In 1885, he was a physician living at 507 Clinton Street in Brooklyn as per the Brooklyn Directory with an office at 28 West 28 th Street in Manhattan. Sumner is listed in the Bellevue College Medical College’s annual catalogue of students for 1873-1874 he studied at University Medical College before that. Further details related to his service are unknown. His muster roll notes that he was 17 years old, was present in August, and was never paid. On August 1, 1864, he enlisted as a private at West Point, Georgia, and served in the 62 nd Alabama (also known as the 1 st Alabama Reserves). A native of Richmond, Virginia, he was living in Marion, Alabama, at the onset of the Civil War.
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Private, 62 nd Alabama Infantry, Company A, Confederate States of America.
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