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Baseball in Culpeper Camp

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Military
City/State/Country: Culpeper, VA, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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The diary of Jacob Wallace Smiley, a Union sharpshooter with the 7th Company, 1st Battalion, New York Sharpshooters, in the Northern Virginia region. The majority of the entries detail his experiences in and around Culpepper from December 1863 to May 1864. He talks about camp life, drills, daily activities, letters from home, and playing baseball in camp. Smiley's last complete entry was on May 4, 1864, when the regiment moved from Culpepper toward Wilderness.

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Smiley diary, at Civil War Diaries web site

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