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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;At Falmouth VA, excerpts from the diary of Sgt Earle of the 15&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; MA notes games of ball with the 34&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; NY on March 18 and again on April 16, 1863 in the regimental history.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The historian, Andrew Ford, writes 35 years later that “during March and April ball playing is frequently mentioned in the diary. The game played in those days was the old-fashioned round ball. Practice games inside the regiment occurred almost daily, and there were several great games with the New York Thirty-Fourth. Our boys were so successful that the captain of the New York team gave up the contest with the admission that if they ‘had been playing for nuts his men wouldn’t even have the shucks.’ The interest taken in these games in the army as a whole almost rivaled that taken in the races, sparring matches, and cock-fights of Meagher’s troops.” Ford does not elaborate on how he concludes that round ball was played, or that the army as a whole was taking to base ball.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Andrew E. Ford, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The Story of the Fifteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry&lt;/span&gt; [1961-1864] (W. J. Coulter, Clinton [MA?], 1898), pages 242 and 244. Accessed 6/8/09 on Google Books via “’fifteenth Massachusetts’” search. The 15&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; MA drew significantly from Worcester County MA. The 34&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; NY regiment was known as the “Herkimer Regiment,” with roots in Herkimer County in Upstate New York; the town of Herkimer is about 15 miles east of Utica on the Mohawk River. The game in this area that preceded the NY game may have been round ball.&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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    • 1863.14  + (<p>At Falmouth VA, excerpts from the … <p>At Falmouth VA, excerpts from the diary of Sgt Earle of the 15<sup>th</sup> MA notes games of ball with the 34<sup>th</sup> NY on March 18 and again on April 16, 1863 in the regimental history.</p></br><p>The historian, Andrew Ford, writes 35 years later that “during March and April ball playing is frequently mentioned in the diary. The game played in those days was the old-fashioned round ball. Practice games inside the regiment occurred almost daily, and there were several great games with the New York Thirty-Fourth. Our boys were so successful that the captain of the New York team gave up the contest with the admission that if they ‘had been playing for nuts his men wouldn’t even have the shucks.’ The interest taken in these games in the army as a whole almost rivaled that taken in the races, sparring matches, and cock-fights of Meagher’s troops.” Ford does not elaborate on how he concludes that round ball was played, or that the army as a whole was taking to base ball.</p></br><p>Andrew E. Ford, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Story of the Fifteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry</span> [1961-1864] (W. J. Coulter, Clinton [MA?], 1898), pages 242 and 244. Accessed 6/8/09 on Google Books via “’fifteenth Massachusetts’” search. The 15<sup>th</sup> MA drew significantly from Worcester County MA. The 34<sup>th</sup> NY regiment was known as the “Herkimer Regiment,” with roots in Herkimer County in Upstate New York; the town of Herkimer is about 15 miles east of Utica on the Mohawk River. The game in this area that preceded the NY game may have been round ball.</p>area that preceded the NY game may have been round ball.</p>)
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