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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1862 |Year Number=101 |Headline=Artillerists play quoits and baseball |Salience=3 |Tags=Civil War, Military |Coordinates=34.9342548, -88.52227019999998 |State=MS |City=Corinth |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Adult |Text=<p>Hampton Smith (ed.), "Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie," feature the wartime letter of a member of the 1st MN light artillery. There are several mentions of Thomas playing baseball in camp:</p> <p>p. 56 (letter from Corinth, MS, June 26, 1862): "As to exercise, quoits and base ball fill up every leisure moment I have..." (with quoits being his favorite)</p> <p>p. 111 (letter from Lake Providence, LA, March 11, 1863): "We sleep sound and dreamless, fatigued by our exertions at Base Ball through the Day."</p> <p>p. 123 (Lake Providence, April 11, 1863): mentions "my habits of playing cricket, quoits, and base ball..."</p> |Sources=<p>Hampton Smith (ed.), "Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie,"</p> |Submitted by=Bruce Allardice |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No |Country=United States }}
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