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|Headline=Too Cold for Baseball in Confederate Camp
|Headline=Too Cold for Baseball in Confederate Camp
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Civil War,
|Tags=Civil War
|Coordinates=38.8403909, -77.42887689999998
|Coordinates=38.8403909, -77.42887689999998
|State=VA
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|Sources=<p>The Rome (GA) Tri-Weekly Courier, Dec. 3, 1861</p>
|Sources=<p>The Rome (GA) Tri-Weekly Courier, Dec. 3, 1861</p>
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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The Rome (GA) Tri-Weekly Courier, Dec. 3, 1861 prints a Nov. 24, 1861 letter from a soldier in the 8th GA Infantry: "Up to a week ago ball playing was quite in vogue, but it is now a little too cold for this kind of recreation..." 

The letter is datelined camp of the 8th GA, near Centreville [near Manassas, VA].

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The Rome (GA) Tri-Weekly Courier, Dec. 3, 1861

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