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Town Ball at Shiloh Battlefield

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Military
Location TN
City/State/Country: Shiloh, TN, United States
Game Town Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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The Mattoon Gazette, April 17, 1862 prints a letter from a soldier in the 7th IL, datelined Pittsburgh Landing, March 31, 1862: "Down on the parade ground the old time-honored games of 'ball pin,' and 'town ball' have enlisted the attention of fifty or sixty soldiers..."

Pittsburgh Landing is where the April 1862 battle of Shiloh was fought.

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The Mattoon Gazette, April 17, 1862

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Submitted by Bruce Allardice



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