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Heavy battle losses don't stop baseball playing
Salience | Peripheral |
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Tags | Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military |
Location | MDMD |
City/State/Country: | [[MD, {{{Country}}}|MD]], [[{{{Country}}}]] |
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Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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Text | The Chicago Tribune, Nov. 18, 1861 has an article on a visit tot he Army of the Potomac, where the writer visited a regiment recently decimated in the Battle of Ball's Bluff, and sees "a party at play in a vigorous game of base ball, and that not forty eight hours after they stood hemmed in by the rebels..." |
Sources | The Chicago Tribune, Nov. 18, 1861 |
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Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
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1861.87 Heavy battle losses don't stop baseball playing"
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