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Awaiting Deployment to Washington, the 44th NY Plays Ball Evenings
| Salience | Peripheral |
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| Tags | Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military |
| Location | Washington DCWashington DC |
| City/State/Country: | Washington, DC, United States |
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| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | 1861: While the regiment trained at an Albany facility in September, a local newspaper noted: “They are under drill six hours during the day . . . Their leisure hours are devoted in great part to athletic exercises, fencing, boxing, and ball-playing, while their evenings are passed in singing, a glee club having been formed.” [page 17]. In a Virginia camp near Washington, “Christmas day of 1861 was given up to the enlisted men. They played ball in the morning and in the afternoon organized a burlesque parade which was very comical” [page 56]. 1863: The regiment was near Culpepper in September. “Capt. B. K. Kimberly was an experienced and skillful base ball player and took the lead in inaugurating a series of games of base ball” [page166]. Captain Eugene A. Nash, A History of the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Infantry (Donnelley and Sons, Chicago, 1911). 1864: In a May 25th letter to his sister from “Near White’s Tavern,” Sgt Orsell Brown noted “Monday [May] 2d I felt poorly. . . . The officers of the Brigade had a great game of ball in the afternoon, in front of our Reg’t.” Provided by Michael Aubrecht, May 15, 2009. |
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| External Number | 124 |
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1861.35 Awaiting Deployment to Washington, the 44th NY Plays Ball Evenings"
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