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|Headline=Town Ball at Shiloh Battlefield
|Headline=Town Ball at Shiloh Battlefield
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Civil War, Military,
|Tags=Civil War, Military
|Location=TN,  
|Location=TN,
|Coordinates=35.1153617, -88.36170849999996
|Coordinates=35.1153617, -88.36170849999996
|State=TN
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|Sources=<p>The Mattoon Gazette, April 17, 1862</p>
|Sources=<p>The Mattoon Gazette, April 17, 1862</p>
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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Town Ball at Shiloh Battlefield

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Military
Location TN
Game Town Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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The Mattoon Gazette, April 17, 1862 prints a letter from a soldier in the 7th IL, datelined Pittsburgh Landing, March 31, 1862: "Down on the parade ground the old time-honored games of 'ball pin,' and'town ball' have enlisted the attention of fifty or sixty soldiers..."

Pittsburgh Landing is where the 1862 battle of Shiloh was fought.

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The Mattoon Gazette, April 17, 1862

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Submitted by Bruce Allardice



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