Col Benjamin W Crowninshield
American
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1837/03/12 | Sarah Putnam Crowninshield, wife of Francis Boardman Crowninshield, gives birth to a son, Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, in Boston. Massachusetts. | Born | |||||
| 1856/11/19 | We went around to visit Mr Shaw a Freshman who proposes to become a member of the Pierian Sodality. Sat there about a half hour talking to him. He seemed rather inquisitive for a Freshman but perhaps it was his very greenness made him so. - BC | Education | Massachusetts Hall, Harvard U | Cambridge, MA | |||
| 1856/11/19 | Benjamin Crowninshield plays Whist with William H F Lee till the sociable (party) is ready at L Erving's room. In 1856, Crowninshield lived at No 9 Hollis Hall. | Life | Hollis Hall, Harvard U | Cambridge, MA | |||
| 1857/06/24 | Went in town to a supper at Parkers given in honor of WHF Lee, BDM Jones, FL Lowndes all of whom are going to leave the class. The eatables were excellent, I took too much of the drinkables and consequently I was too sick to get up till 2 o'clk. - BC | Guest | Parker House | Boston | |||
| 1858/06/06 | Rowing in their underclothes, BC, captain of the Harvard crew team, and instructor Charles Eliot choose red handkerchiefs for Harvard crew so fans could identify them. Crimson eventually became the official Harvard color. | Harvard Crew | Charles River Basin Historic District | Cambridge, MA | |||
| 1858/06/06 | Rowing in their underclothes, BC, captain of the Harvard crew team, and instructor Charles Eliot choose red handkerchiefs for Harvard crew so fans could identify them. Crimson eventually became the official Harvard color. | Harvard Crew | Charles River Basin Historic District | Boston | |||
| 1861/11/05 | Benjamin W Crowninshield enlist with the rank of lieutenant in the First Massachusetts Cavalry. | Union Lt | |||||
| 1861/12/19 | Benjamin W Crowninshield is promoted to first lieutenant. | Union Lt | |||||
| 1862/03/26 | Lt Crowninshield is promoted to captain. | Union Captain | |||||
| 1862/09/14 | Union Captain Benjamin W Crowninshield fights at South Mountain. | Union Captain | Battle of South Mountain | ||||
| 1862/09/17 | George B McClellan commands the 75500-man Army of the Potomac | Union Captain | Antietam National Battlefield | Sharpsburg, MD | Battle of Antietam | ||
| 1864/00/00 | WHF Lee is captured and held at Fort Monroe. Under the control of Ben Crowninshield, provost marshal on Sheridan's staff, Rooney Lee prefers not to accept any of the privileges Crowninshield tries to bestow upon him. | Union Captain | Fort Monroe | Hampton | |||
| 1864/05/00 | Battle of the Wilderness | Union Captain | Ellwood Manor | Wilderness Battlefield | Battle of the Wilderness | ||
| 1864/08/10 | Captain Crowninshield becomes a major in the US Army. | Union Major | |||||
| 1864/11/06 | Benjamin W Crowninshield is mustered out of the army after he served as aide de camp to Gen Philip Sheridan and became provost-marshal of the Middle Militia Division. | Union Major | |||||
| 1870/00/00 | Crowninshield House is built for Benjamin W Crowninshield. | Home | Crowninshield House, Boston | Boston | |||
| 1892/01/16 | Benjamin Williams Crowninshield dies in Rome, Italy. | Died |
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