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- 1862.49 + (<p>“THE BIRTH OF BASE-BALL. Some of … <p>“THE BIRTH OF BASE-BALL. Some of the men who went home on furlough in 1862 returned to their regiments with tales of a marvelous new game which was spreading though the Northern States. In camp at White Oak Church near Falmouth, Va., Kearny’s brigade played this ‘baseball,’ as it was known. Bartlett’s boys won this historic game.”</p></br><p>F. Miller and R. Lanier, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Photographic History of the Civil War,</span> Volume Eight, Soldier Life, (Review of Reviews Co., New York, 1911), plate following page 243. This text sits next to a photograph of men playing football in 1864. <strong>Note: </strong> can we locate the cited photo?</p>t;/strong> can we locate the cited photo?</p>)