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Confederate POWs play baseball at Rock Island

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Military
Location Illinois
City/State/Country: Rock Island, IL, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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Confederate army prisoners at the Rock Island, Illinois POW Camp, played baseball there. See Ben McAdams, Rebels at Rock Island (2000), p. 68, citing the diary of J. W. Minnich, Private 6th Louisiana Infantry.

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Ben McAdams, Rebels at Rock Island (2000), p. 68

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