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Indiana Regiment plays Town Ball in NC

Salience Peripheral
Tags Civil War, Military
Location NC
City/State/Country: Kinston, NC, United States
Game Town Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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The Randolph Journal (Winchester, IN), April 6, 1865 prints a letter from a member of the 124th Indiana, near Kinston, NC, dated March 8, 1865: "I saw Lieut. Col. Neff this morning eagerly engaged in a game of town-ball, and exhibiting as much spirit and dash as a young blood of twenty five..."

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The Randolph Journal (Winchester, IN), April 6, 1865

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Submitted by Bruce Allardice



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