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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;In his diary for the year 1864, Lieutenant Lemuel Abbott [10&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; VT] includes six entries on ballplaying. One involved a challenge from the non-commissioned officers to the officers to play for an oyster dinner [January 29], and another in which his Company challenged the regiment to “play a game of ball for $50 [March 19]. One day he reports that “a game of ball came off this afternoon in which the commissioned offers won. Two more games are to be played Monday if a good day. [January 30]” All ballplaying entries appear between January 29 and April 29.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Lemuel A. Abbott, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary 1864&lt;/span&gt; (Free Press, Burlington, 1908), pages 13, 20, 28, 30, 41. The January entry is mentioned in Kirsch, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Baseball in Blue and &lt;/span&gt;Gray, page 41. Accessed 6/19/09 on Google Books via “recollections 1864” search. Abbott’s Company B was from Burlington VT. Their camp during early 1864 was near Brandy Station, VA, about 60 miles SW of Washington and about 75 miles NW of Richmond.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;See also Montpelier Daily Journal, Feb. 15, 1864, and Vermont Watchman, Feb. 19, 1864, for notice of the commissioned/non-commissioned officers game.&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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