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|Year=1862 | |Year=1862 | ||
|Year Number=39 | |||
|Headline=Vermonters Play Manly Sport of Football, (and Base Ball) in Virginia | |Headline=Vermonters Play Manly Sport of Football, (and Base Ball) in Virginia | ||
|Salience=3 | |Salience=3 | ||
|Tags=Civil War | |Tags=Civil War, Holidays, Military, | ||
|Location=VA, | |||
|Coordinates=38.84622359999999, -77.30637330000002 | |||
|State=VA | |||
|City=Fairfax | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Holiday=Thanksgiving | |||
|Text=<p>Thanksgiving in Fairfax County in northernmost VA: “At 2 o’clock, the regiment turned out on the parade ground. The colonel had procured a foot ball. Sides were arranged by the lieutenant colonel and two or three royal games of foot ball – most manly of sports, and closest in its mimicry of actual warfare – were played. . . . Many joined in games of base ball; others formed rings and watched friendly contests of the champion wrestlers of the different companies . . . . It was a “tall time” all around.”</p> | |||
<p>George G. Benedict, “Letter from George Grenville Benedict, December 6, 1862,” <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Army Life in Virginia: Letters from the Twelfth Regiment</span> (Free Press, Burlington, 1895), pp 80-81. Accessed 6/3/09 on Google Books via “army life in Virginia” search. Benedict, from Burlington, had been an editor and postmaster before the Civil War, and later became a state senator. The regiment appears to have been raised in the Burlington area. Submitted by Jeff Kittel, 5/12/09.</p> | |||
|External Number=27 | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
|Country=United States | |||
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Tags | Civil War, Holidays, MilitaryCivil War, Holidays, Military |
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City/State/Country: | Fairfax, VA, United States |
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Age of Players | AdultAdult |
Holiday | Thanksgiving |
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Text | Thanksgiving in Fairfax County in northernmost VA: “At 2 o’clock, the regiment turned out on the parade ground. The colonel had procured a foot ball. Sides were arranged by the lieutenant colonel and two or three royal games of foot ball – most manly of sports, and closest in its mimicry of actual warfare – were played. . . . Many joined in games of base ball; others formed rings and watched friendly contests of the champion wrestlers of the different companies . . . . It was a “tall time” all around.” George G. Benedict, “Letter from George Grenville Benedict, December 6, 1862,” Army Life in Virginia: Letters from the Twelfth Regiment (Free Press, Burlington, 1895), pp 80-81. Accessed 6/3/09 on Google Books via “army life in Virginia” search. Benedict, from Burlington, had been an editor and postmaster before the Civil War, and later became a state senator. The regiment appears to have been raised in the Burlington area. Submitted by Jeff Kittel, 5/12/09. |
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