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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Massachusetts Infantry as captain, but changed to the cavalry and became a captain of the First Massachusetts Cavalry. Captain Crownishield became major of the Second Massachusetts Cavalry in 1863, and succeeded Colonel Charles Russell Lowell as commander of the regiment Oct. 21, after the latter's death at Cedar Creek. On March 13. 1865, Colonel Crowninshield was brevetted brigadier general "for gallant and meritorious conduct during the war," and on June 16 he resigned from the army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 1/12/1897 | See Source »

...United States Sanitary Commission, before Richmond, and on September 26 of the same year he enlisted as a private in the Forty-Fifth Massachusetts Volunteers. On October 28 he became hospital steward of the regiment. He was present at the battles of Kingston, S. C., Whitehall, Goldsboro, and Cove Creek, and was mustered out of service on July 7, 1863. In June, 1864, he entered the army of the Potomac as a volunteer surgeon and was stationed at the Ninth Artillery Corps hospital at White House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 1/24/1896 | See Source »

Walter Clark Nichols of the class of '93 died very suddenly at Cripple Creek, Colorado, on Friday, January 10. The cause assigned for his death is heart disease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 1/13/1896 | See Source »

...locality and was driven all through the camp in her victoria, getting all the information required for success. Lyon and Blair continued their prompt action and drove the confederates to the southwest corner ot the state. There the Southerners rallied and in the drawn battle of Wilson's Creek, Lyon was killed at the head of his troops. His death was a great loss to the cause. His coolness. skill, and precision of movement were qualities which might have placed him in the front rank of commanders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DR. FISKE'S LECTURE. | 12/11/1895 | See Source »

...Willan at 4.08 both crews got well away. Opposite the boathouse Oxford had already got the canvas bow of their boat in front of the Cambridge boat. For the first minute Oxford rowed thirty-eight strokes and Cambridge thirty-six. Oxford was drawing ahead rapidly and at Bishop's Creek the Oxonians were leading by half a length...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford Wins the Race. | 4/1/1895 | See Source »

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