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The "best players" of NYC and Brooklyn play in the army

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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The DC National Republican, June 28, 1861 prints a June 25th letter from Camp Wool [in DC] saying that Steers' nine (Company E) played Baldwin's nine (Company D), the two nines containing some of the best players of NYC and Brooklyn. It appears this was a New York Regiment that played.

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The DC National Republican, June 28, 1861

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