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On Last Day of Service, PA Soldiers Play Ball

Salience Peripheral
Tags Civil War, Military
Location Pennsylvania
City/State/Country: Carlisle, PA, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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[Thursday May 4, 1865] “Not much to do in camp. Most of us playing ball.”

Civil War Diary of Dr. William McKibbin, covering February to August 1865. Accessed via Genealogybank subscription 5/19/09. McKibbin wrote this entry in Carlisle PA. He mustered out of the service on the next day, and three days later “Ella and I married at 7:00 in the evening.”

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