Search by property
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
This page provides a simple browsing interface for finding entities described by a property and a named value. Other available search interfaces include the page property search, and the ask query builder.
List of results
- 1864.4 + (<p>In his diary for the year 1864, L … <p>In his diary for the year 1864, Lieutenant Lemuel Abbott [10<sup>th</sup> VT] includes six entries on ballplaying. One involved a challenge from the non-commissioned officers to the officers to play for an oyster dinner [January 29], and another in which his Company challenged the regiment to “play a game of ball for $50 [March 19]. One day he reports that “a game of ball came off this afternoon in which the commissioned offers won. Two more games are to be played Monday if a good day. [January 30]” All ballplaying entries appear between January 29 and April 29.</p></br><p>Lemuel A. Abbott, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary 1864</span> (Free Press, Burlington, 1908), pages 13, 20, 28, 30, 41. The January entry is mentioned in Kirsch, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball in Blue and </span>Gray, page 41. Accessed 6/19/09 on Google Books via “recollections 1864” search. Abbott’s Company B was from Burlington VT. Their camp during early 1864 was near Brandy Station, VA, about 60 miles SW of Washington and about 75 miles NW of Richmond.</p></br><p>See also Montpelier Daily Journal, Feb. 15, 1864, and Vermont Watchman, Feb. 19, 1864, for notice of the commissioned/non-commissioned officers game.</p>1864, for notice of the commissioned/non-commissioned officers game.</p>)