1863.41

High-Stakes Matches Dot VA as Winter Camps Thaw Out

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military
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City/State/Country:	Falmouth, VA, United States
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Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	“I thought we should have been half way to Richmond before this time, but here we are all very much taken up with base ball playing recently. Yesterday the fifth N. Jersey played the rest of the Brigade for $100 a side and we beat them, to day we played the second New York on the same terms and beat them, and tomorrow the Eight New Jersey playes the second N.Y. for $300 a side, and then we play the Sickles Brigade.” Stanley Gaines, 7^th NJ, to his sister from “Camp near Falmouth Va April 22d/63. In an earlier letter to a friend on April 14, 1863, Gaines had written, “Morality is certainly at a low ebb in the army, more preferring to play ball than to go to church, but a more generous open hearted and jolly crew than our soldiers it is hard to find.” Provided by Michael Aubrecht, May 15, 2009.
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