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Waiting for Sherman, and Playing, in Georgia

Salience Peripheral
Tags Civil War, Military
Location GA
City/State/Country: Dalton, GA, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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“Captain James Hall of the 24th Alabama Regiment observed his men playing [. . . ] ‘just like school boys’ while waiting for the advance of Union General Sherman.”

Patricia Millen, From Pastime to Passion (Heritage, 2001), page 19. She cites B. I. Wiley, The Common Soldier in the Civil War (Grosset and Dunlap, 1960), page 170. L. J. Daniel, in Soldiering in the Army of the Tennessee (UNC Press, 1991), page 90, seems to identify this quote as taken from a letter from James Hall to his brother, April 19, 1864.

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