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|Year=1864 | |Year=1864 | ||
|Year Number=34 | |||
|Headline=Tenth MA Plays Inter-regimental Games of Base Ball and Wicket in VA | |Headline=Tenth MA Plays Inter-regimental Games of Base Ball and Wicket in VA | ||
|Salience=3 | |Salience=3 | ||
|Tags=Civil War | |Tags=Civil War, Military, | ||
|Location=VA, | |||
|Coordinates=37.4315734, -78.65689420000001 | |||
|State=VA | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>“[The 10<sup>th</sup> and?] the 2<sup>nd</sup> RI are to have a grand match of Base Ball to day. a few days ago they played a game of Wicket with the 37<sup>th</sup> and our boys beat them handsomely . . . .[Source letter not available on Google Books.]</p> | |||
<p>“Our Regiment played another match game of Base Ball with the 2<sup>nd</sup> RI to day and beat them as usual. They played a second game of Wicket with the 37<sup>th</sup> last Saturday and beat them again worse than the first time.</p> | |||
<p>“I was out with the Officers of our Regt and the 7<sup>th</sup> this morning playing Wicket when I got hit in the eye with the ball which has blacked it most beautifully. My eye is ornamented with a black spot as big as a silver dollar, if you can remember the size of one of those, I had almost forgotten it.” The last two passages are from an April 26, 1864 letter home.</p> | |||
<p>Charles Harvey Brewster, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">When This Cruel War is Over: the Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster</span> (UMass Press, 1992), pages 284 and 288. Accessed 7/709 on Google Books [in limited preview], via “brewster ‘when this cruel’” search. From the apparent context, this passage appears in a chapter covering March to June 1864, when the 10<sup>th</sup> MA was near Brandy Station VA. The regiment was from Springfield in western Massachusetts, and the 37<sup>th</sup> MA formed in Pittsfield MA.</p> | |||
|External Number=143 | |External Number=143 | ||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
|Country=United States | |||
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Text | “[The 10th and?] the 2nd RI are to have a grand match of Base Ball to day. a few days ago they played a game of Wicket with the 37th and our boys beat them handsomely . . . .[Source letter not available on Google Books.] “Our Regiment played another match game of Base Ball with the 2nd RI to day and beat them as usual. They played a second game of Wicket with the 37th last Saturday and beat them again worse than the first time. “I was out with the Officers of our Regt and the 7th this morning playing Wicket when I got hit in the eye with the ball which has blacked it most beautifully. My eye is ornamented with a black spot as big as a silver dollar, if you can remember the size of one of those, I had almost forgotten it.” The last two passages are from an April 26, 1864 letter home. Charles Harvey Brewster, When This Cruel War is Over: the Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster (UMass Press, 1992), pages 284 and 288. Accessed 7/709 on Google Books [in limited preview], via “brewster ‘when this cruel’” search. From the apparent context, this passage appears in a chapter covering March to June 1864, when the 10th MA was near Brandy Station VA. The regiment was from Springfield in western Massachusetts, and the 37th MA formed in Pittsfield MA. |
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