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72nd NY Plays Baseball in Camp
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military |
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| City/State/Country: | Falmouth, VA, United States |
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| Text | The 1863 diary of Henry Squire, 72nd New York Infantry and includes entries from January through July. Early entries detail camp life, war news, and in particular, playing baseball and boxing, an inspection by Lincoln, and camp rumors (from March 'Gen. Lee [was] dead and [Stonewall] Jackson had been wounded'). Entries during the first part of May talk about Squire's experiences while at Libby Prison in Richmond. He was captured at Chancellorsville May 3rd and paroled May 13.
The unit was near Falmouth, VA at the time. |
| Sources | From Squire Diary, Civil War Diaries website. |
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| Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
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1863.137 72nd NY Plays Baseball in Camp"
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