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Too Cold for Baseball in Confederate Camp
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military |
| Location | VirginiaVirginia |
| City/State/Country: | Centreville, VA, United States |
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| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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| Text | The Rome (GA) Tri-Weekly Courier, Dec. 3, 1861 prints a Nov. 24, 1861 letter from a soldier in the 8th GA Infantry: "Up to a week ago ball playing was quite in vogue, but it is now a little too cold for this kind of recreation..." The letter is datelined camp of the 8th GA, near Centreville [near Manassas, VA]. The letter writer was probably Moses Dwinnell (1825-87), an officer in the 8th who had been prewar editor of the Rome Courier. |
| Sources | The Rome (GA) Tri-Weekly Courier, Dec. 3, 1861 |
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| Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
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1861.48 Too Cold for Baseball in Confederate Camp"
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