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Not sure about the Harvard rowing team... https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/03/blue-gray-and... Note that the first person they mention was on the rowing team.

Off to war, from Harvard

Among the first enlistees in the 20th was the patrician Caspar Crowninshield ’60, the rugged lead oar of his College crew team and the sixth from his family to graduate from Harvard. His thoughts turned somber on the train ride south. “I could not help feeling sad as I looked around,” he wrote, reflecting on how “few might ever return.”

Union enlistments: 1,358 College, 608 Medical School, 387 Law School, 285 Lawrence Scientific, 54 Divinity, 23 Observatory, 1 Killed or died of wounds, 110 Died from disease, 63 Died from accidents, 3