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|Year=1864 | |Year=1864 | ||
|Year Number=4 | |||
|Headline=10th Vermont Lieutenant Describes Ballplaying in Northern Virginia | |Headline=10th Vermont Lieutenant Describes Ballplaying in Northern Virginia | ||
|Salience=3 | |Salience=3 | ||
|Tags=Civil War | |Tags=Civil War, | ||
|Text=<p>In his diary for the year 1864, Lieutenant Lemuel Abbott [10<sup>th</sup> VT] includes six entries on ballplaying. One involved a challenge from the non-commissioned officers to the officers to play for an oyster dinner [January 29], and another in which his Company challenged the regiment to “play a game of ball for $50 [March 19]. One day he reports that “a game of ball came off this afternoon in which the commissioned offers won. Two more games are to be played Monday if a good day. [January 30]” All ballplaying entries appear between January 29 and April 29.</p> | |||
<p>Lemuel A. Abbott, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary 1864</span> (Free Press, Burlington, 1908), pages 13, 20, 28, 30, 41. The January entry is mentioned in Kirsch, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball in Blue and </span>Gray, page 41. Accessed 6/19/09 on Google Books via “recollections 1864” search. Abbott’s Company B was from Burlington VT. Their camp during early 1864 was near Brandy Station, VA, about 60 miles SW of Washington and about 75 miles NW of Richmond.</p> | |||
<p>See also Montpelier Daily Journal, Feb. 15, 1864 for notice of the commissioned/non-commsissioned officers game.</p> | |||
|External Number=88 | |External Number=88 | ||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
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Text | In his diary for the year 1864, Lieutenant Lemuel Abbott [10th VT] includes six entries on ballplaying. One involved a challenge from the non-commissioned officers to the officers to play for an oyster dinner [January 29], and another in which his Company challenged the regiment to “play a game of ball for $50 [March 19]. One day he reports that “a game of ball came off this afternoon in which the commissioned offers won. Two more games are to be played Monday if a good day. [January 30]” All ballplaying entries appear between January 29 and April 29. Lemuel A. Abbott, Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary 1864 (Free Press, Burlington, 1908), pages 13, 20, 28, 30, 41. The January entry is mentioned in Kirsch, Baseball in Blue and Gray, page 41. Accessed 6/19/09 on Google Books via “recollections 1864” search. Abbott’s Company B was from Burlington VT. Their camp during early 1864 was near Brandy Station, VA, about 60 miles SW of Washington and about 75 miles NW of Richmond. See also Montpelier Daily Journal, Feb. 15, 1864 for notice of the commissioned/non-commsissioned officers game. |
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