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Baseball at Camp Cleveland

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Military
Location Ohio
City/State/Country: Cleveland, OH, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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Theodore Tracie's 1874 book, "Annals of the Nineteenth Ohio Volunteer Artillery" recalls soldier life in 1862 in Camp Cleveland (bounded by West 5th, Railway, West 7th and Marquardt) in what is now Tremont. Says that among other diversions, "Baseball games were played on the parade grounds."

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