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Confederate soldiers in need of base ball and cricket bats

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War
Location Charleston, SC
City/State/Country: Charleston, SC, USA
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"Camp Games.  Every volunteer who has been in service, has realized the tedium of camp life.  Between reveille and breakfast--between morning and evening drill--there is waste time, which might be used advantageously at such many exercises as cricket, base ball, foot ball, quoit pitching, etc.  A recent visit to some of our camp[s], showed several parties enjoying a quiet hand at pitching quoits in a shady grove.  Cannot some of our hardware deale3rs have a supply cast, and let our soldiers know where they can be procured?  Cricket and base ball bats are also wanted, and a few dozen substantial foot balls would, we are sure, find ready sale.  For want of such things, the time of the soldier is mainly spent in playing cards."

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The Charleston (SC) Mercury (3 Apr 1862).  Available digitally through "Accessible Archives."

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