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Baseball at Benton Barracks

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Military
Location MO
City/State/Country: St. Louis, MO, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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The Marshall (IL) Flag of Our Union, Oct. 25, 1861 prints a Oct. 21 letter from a soldier ("G. Shaw") at Benton Barracks, St. Louis in which he says: "Here can be enacted, among the young men, all of the scenes of their school days. Some are engaged in playing ball, some racing, some jumping, and not infrequently some playing leap frog." 

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The Marshall (IL) Flag of Our Union, Oct. 25, 1861

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