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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1861 |Year Number=48 |Headline=Too Cold for Baseball in Confederate Camp |Salience=2 |Tags=Civil War, Military, |Location=Virginia, |Coordinates=38.8403909, -77.42887689999998 |State=VA |City=Centreville |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Adult |Text=<p>The Rome (GA) Tri-Weekly Courier, Dec. 3, 1861 prints a Nov. 24, 1861 letter from a soldier in the 8th GA Infantry: "Up to a week ago ball playing was quite in vogue, but it is now a little too cold for this kind of recreation..." </p> <p>The letter is datelined camp of the 8th GA, near Centreville [near Manassas, VA]. The letter writer was probably Moses Dwinnell (1825-87), an officer in the 8th who had been prewar editor of the Rome Courier.</p> |Sources=<p>The Rome (GA) Tri-Weekly Courier, Dec. 3, 1861</p> |Submitted by=Bruce Allardice |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No |Country=United States }}
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