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NC Lt. mentions baseball

Salience Peripheral
Tags Civil War, Military
Location VA
City/State/Country: VA, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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Cornell University has a ms. letter dated 12-29-1861 from Lt. William Nunnally, 13th NC infantry, in which he mentions baseball, and visiting the CSS Merrimac. From the context, he must have been near Norfolk, VA at the time.

Sources

Cornell U., Box 1, Folder 19, catalog entry.

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