title: Sumter
text: # Sumter
  
  Sumter may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  ### Given name
  
  * Sumter S. Arnim (1904–1990), American dentist
  * Sumter de Leon Lowry Jr. (1893–1985), United States Army general
  
  ### Surname
  
  * Rowendy Sumter (born 1988), Curaçaoan footballer
  * Shavonda E. Sumter (born 1974), American politician
  * Thomas Sumter (1734–1832), brigadier general during the American War of Independence
  * Thomas De Lage Sumter (1809–1874), American politician
  
  ## Places
  
  * Fort Sumter, location of the first shots of the United States Civil War
  * Sumter, Georgia
  * Sumter, Nebraska
  * Sumter, South Carolina
  * Sumter National Forest
  * Sumter County, Alabama
  * Sumter County, Florida
  * Sumter County, Georgia
  * Sumter County, South Carolina
  * Sumter Township, McLeod County, Minnesota
  
  ## Ships
  
  * CSS Sumter a Confederate Navy vessel in the American Civil War
  * USS Sumter (1862), the former CSS General Sumter, a cottonclad ram captured in 1862
  * USS Sumter (APA-52) (previously AP-97), an attack transport; formerly Iberville
  * USS Sumter (LST-1181), a tank landing ship
  * Sumter-class attack transport
  