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Bay Stater to Wife: “We had a gay old time playing ball . . . send me five dollars”

Salience Peripheral
Tags Civil War, Military
Location WV
City/State/Country: Wheeling, WV, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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“My dear wife, We were drawn up in line this afternoon and informed we would be discharged and sent to our Regiments in ten days. We had a gay old time playing ball. . . . You must send me five dollars without fail. I am almost distracted by the want of tobacco.”

Letter home from Wheeling, West Virginia, by John R. Irving, May 4, 1865. Irving, in a Massachusetts Cavalry unit, was assigned to General Custer’s Division. Note: it is possible that the ellipsis in this rendering omits a bit more detail about the ballplaying. Accessed 6/22/09 by Google Web search “’john r irving’ ‘auction contents.’” The letter is descried under auction #2.1.

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