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Baseball near Petersburg

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Military
Location VA
City/State/Country: Petersburg, VA, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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In late 1864, the New York Times reported the game among the fortifications and camps along the Appomattox River, “Sometimes a few enterprising minds get up a baseball match, and they are as punctilious over ‘fair’ and ‘foul’ as the most ambitious club at home.”

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"The Army of the Potomac," New York Times, Oct. 30, 1864.

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