Word: shenandoah
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...till he enlisted. As captain in the sixth Massachusetts cavalry he was ordered to Virginia, where he was given a place in General McClellan's staff. After the battle of Antietam, Colonel Lowell received the honor of carrying the captured flags to Washington. While fighting with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, he was wounded in the chest. Despite this wound he charged a village held by sharp-shooters at the head of his troop, receiving a fatal wound in the neck. General Sheridan said of Colonel Lowell "I never had to tell Colonel Lowell what to do. He had always...
...plan for founding an ideal farm, to be managed by Harvard men, has now been fully developed. A situation will be obtained if possible in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, and a stock company will be established. Several New York business men have offered to back the undertaking financially. A meeting to arrange the plan more definitely, and to hear the reports of the committee appointed to investigate special branches of farming industry, will be held on Wednesday. The probable speakers will be Professor W. James, Professor T. N. Carver, and Mr. E. A. Morse...