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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1861
|Year Number=16
|Headline=NY Regiment Plays "Favorite Game" After Dress Parade in Elmira NY
|Headline=NY Regiment Plays "Favorite Game" After Dress Parade in Elmira NY
|Year=1861
|Salience=2
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Tags=Civil War, Military,
|Location=Western New York
|Location=Western New York
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=42.0897965, -76.8077338
|State=NY
|City=Elmira
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>"After [the camp's dress] parade, which generally lasted about an hour, the camp was alive with fun and frolic . . . leap-frog, double-duck, foot and base-ball or sparring, wrestling, and racing, shared their attention."</p>
|Text=<p>"After [the camp's dress] parade, which generally lasted about an hour, the camp was alive with fun and frolic . . . leap-frog, double-duck, foot and base-ball or sparring, wrestling, and racing, shared their attention."</p>
<p>J. Harrison Mills, <u>Chronicles of the Twenty-First Regiment, New York Volunteers</u> (21<sup>st</sup> Veteran Assn., Buffalo, 1887), page 42.  The newly-formed regiment, evidently raised in the Buffalo area, was at camp in Elmira in May 1861 in this recollection, and would deploy to Washington in June.  A visitor to the camp wrote the next day, "I was not surprised . . . to see how extensively the amusements which had been practiced in their leisure hours in the city [Buffalo?], were continued in camp. Boxing with gloves, ball-playing, running and jumping, were among these. The ball clubs were well represented here, and the exercise of their favorite game is carried on spiritedly by the Buffalo boys." [page 43.] PBall file: CW-123.</p>
<p>A visitor to the camp wrote the next day, "I was not surprised . . . to see how extensively the amusements which had been practiced in their leisure hours in the city [Buffalo?], were continued in camp. Boxing with gloves, ball-playing, running and jumping, were among these. The ball clubs were well represented here, and the exercise of their favorite game is carried on spiritedly by the Buffalo boys." [page 43.] PBall file: CW-123.</p>
|Sources=<p>J. Harrison Mills,&nbsp;<span>Chronicles of the Twenty-First Regiment, New York Volunteers</span>&nbsp;(21<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;Veteran Assn., Buffalo, 1887), page 42.&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>The newly-formed regiment, evidently raised in the Buffalo area, was at camp in Elmira in May 1861 in this recollection, and would deploy to Washington in June.</p>
<p>Duplicate of 1861.34?&nbsp;</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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NY Regiment Plays "Favorite Game" After Dress Parade in Elmira NY

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Military
Location Western New York
City/State/Country: Elmira, NY, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"After [the camp's dress] parade, which generally lasted about an hour, the camp was alive with fun and frolic . . . leap-frog, double-duck, foot and base-ball or sparring, wrestling, and racing, shared their attention."

A visitor to the camp wrote the next day, "I was not surprised . . . to see how extensively the amusements which had been practiced in their leisure hours in the city [Buffalo?], were continued in camp. Boxing with gloves, ball-playing, running and jumping, were among these. The ball clubs were well represented here, and the exercise of their favorite game is carried on spiritedly by the Buffalo boys." [page 43.] PBall file: CW-123.

Sources

J. Harrison Mills, Chronicles of the Twenty-First Regiment, New York Volunteers (21st Veteran Assn., Buffalo, 1887), page 42. 

Comment

The newly-formed regiment, evidently raised in the Buffalo area, was at camp in Elmira in May 1861 in this recollection, and would deploy to Washington in June.

Duplicate of 1861.34? 

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