1863.45
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10th Maine Played “Time-Honored Game of Base-ball”
| Salience | Peripheral |
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| Tags | Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military |
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| City/State/Country: | VA, United States |
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| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | “Occasionally they indulged in the amusing and time-honored game of base-ball, but not infrequently they were called from this pleasure, to some arduous and important duty.” William Whitman and Charles True, Maine in the War for Union (Dingley, Lewiston, 1865), page 247. It seems clear from context that ballplaying was not infrequent. It is unclear from the phrasing whether they played the NY game or an old-fashioned form. The passage seems to imply that the game was played in 1862-1863 winter camp; the Tenth ME was at Stafford Court House VA from January to April 1863. |
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| External Number | 79 |
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1863.45 10th Maine Played “Time-Honored Game of Base-ball”"
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