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Officers Play Baseball on Folly Island
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Tags | Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military |
Location | |
City/State/Country: | Folly Island, SC, United States |
Modern Address | |
Game | Base BallBase Ball |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | AdultAdult |
Holiday | Thanksgiving |
Notables | |
Text | On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24, 1864, officers of the 55th Massachusetts Infantry played "a game of base ball" at their camp on Folly Island, near Charleston, SC. |
Sources | Lt Col. Charles Fox, in North and South Magazine, Feb. 2010. |
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Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
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1864.101 Officers Play Baseball on Folly Island"
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