Summit Point, Va

a battle of the Civil War during Sheridan’s campaign in the Shenandoah Valley and Early’s sortie against Washington. Sheridan was retreating toward Hall town with the intention of strengthening his position there, for he had heard that Early was expecting reinforcements under Anderson and that others might come. On the road through Summit Point, he fell in with several detachments of Early’s troops. Rodes’s and Ramseur's infantry were advanced to the attack, and a fierce skirmish occurred. The Federals lost quite heavily and were decidedly worsted. Getty’s division of the Sixth Corps lost 250 killed and wounded. “ Sumner,’ the name of a steamer fitted up for transport service in the carrying of troops and money to the Philippines. Before the steamer sailed from New York, March 31, 1900, it was discovered that her officers’ quarters had been fitted up in a style of magnificence that made: her a veritable floating palace. A scandal was provoked by the introh duction in Congre of a resolution asking that an investigation be made of the gro extravagance. The interior furnishings of the steamer cost the sum of $748,000. 269