1864.2

Minnesotan’s Diary Shows Ballplaying on Ten Days Over Ten Weeks

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military
Location	GAGA
City/State/Country:	Ringgold, GA, United States
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Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	Isaac Clason, of Company B in the 2^nd Minnesota Volunteers, made 10 minimal references to ballplaying from January 29 to April 16, 1864. No more appear to the June end of the record. A typical entry was “Had a fine game of ball this afternoon” [March 17]. On January 29: “Spent today playing ball, pitching anvils and everything to amuse myself.” On April 5: “Had a fine game of ball and in the evening went to the Boulten Minstrels performance. Not very good entertainment.” The diary refers to “Ringgold” [and to peach trees in bloom in March] and it would seem that Clason spent his winter in the area of Ringgold Gap, GA, where a September 1863 defeat had stalled the North’s incipient drive toward Atlanta until May 7 1864. Ringgold GA is about 15 miles SE of Chattanooga and about 6 miles south of the Tennessee border. Diary of Isaac W. Clason, accessed online at ancestry.com by Google web search “clason diary.”
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