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|Year=1862 | |Year=1862 | ||
|Year Number=47 | |||
|Headline=Hawthorne Sees Ballplaying at Washington-area Camp | |Headline=Hawthorne Sees Ballplaying at Washington-area Camp | ||
|Text=<p>Notes upon visiting a camp near Alexandria VA: | |Salience=3 | ||
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|Location=Washington DC, | |||
|Text=<p>Notes upon visiting a camp near Alexandria VA: “Here were in progress all the occupations, and all the idleness, of the soldier in the tented field. Some were cooking the company-rations in pots hung over fires in the open air; some played at ball, or developed their muscular power by gymnastic exercise; some read newspapers, some smoked cigars or pipes.”</p> | |||
<p>Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fortress Monroe,” in I. Finseth, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The American Civil War</span> (CRC Press, 2006), page 398. Accessed in restricted view on Google Books 6/16/09.</p> | |||
|External Number=127 | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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Text | Notes upon visiting a camp near Alexandria VA: “Here were in progress all the occupations, and all the idleness, of the soldier in the tented field. Some were cooking the company-rations in pots hung over fires in the open air; some played at ball, or developed their muscular power by gymnastic exercise; some read newspapers, some smoked cigars or pipes.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fortress Monroe,” in I. Finseth, The American Civil War (CRC Press, 2006), page 398. Accessed in restricted view on Google Books 6/16/09. |
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