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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1861 |Year Number=34 |Headline=Regiment Plays “Favorite Game” After Dress Parade in Elmira NY |Salience=3 |Tags=Civil War, Military, |Location=NY, |Coordinates=42.0897965, -76.8077338 |State=NY |City=Elmira |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective |Age of Players=Adult |Text=<p>“After [the camp’s dress] parade, which generally lasted about an hour, the camp was alive with fun and frolic . . . leap-frog, double-duck, foot and base-ball or sparring, wrestling, and racing, shared their attention.”</p> <p>J. Harrison Mills, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chronicles of the Twenty-First Regiment, New York Volunteers</span> (21<sup>st</sup> Veteran Assn., Buffalo, 1887), page 42. The newly-formed regiment, evidently raised in the Buffalo area, was at camp in Elmira in May 1861 in this recollection, and would deploy to Washington in June. A visitor to the camp wrote the next day, “I was not surprised . . . to see how extensively the amusements which had been practiced in their leisure hours in the city [Buffalo?], were continued in camp. Boxing with gloves, ball-playing, running and jumping, were among these. The ball clubs were well represented here, and the exercise of their favorite game is carried on spiritedly by the Buffalo boys.” [page 43.]</p> |Comment=<p>Duplicate of 1861.16?</p> |External Number=123 |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No |Country=United States }}
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