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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1862 |Year Number=39 |Headline=Vermonters Play Manly Sport of Football, (and Base Ball) in Virginia |Salience=3 |Tags=Civil War, Holidays, Military, |Location=VA, |Coordinates=38.84622359999999, -77.30637330000002 |State=VA |City=Fairfax |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective |Age of Players=Adult |Holiday=Thanksgiving |Text=<p>Thanksgiving in Fairfax County in northernmost VA: “At 2 o’clock, the regiment turned out on the parade ground. The colonel had procured a foot ball. Sides were arranged by the lieutenant colonel and two or three royal games of foot ball – most manly of sports, and closest in its mimicry of actual warfare – were played. . . . Many joined in games of base ball; others formed rings and watched friendly contests of the champion wrestlers of the different companies . . . . It was a “tall time” all around.”</p> <p>George G. Benedict, “Letter from George Grenville Benedict, December 6, 1862,” <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Army Life in Virginia: Letters from the Twelfth Regiment</span> (Free Press, Burlington, 1895), pp 80-81. Accessed 6/3/09 on Google Books via “army life in Virginia” search. Benedict, from Burlington, had been an editor and postmaster before the Civil War, and later became a state senator. The regiment appears to have been raised in the Burlington area. Submitted by Jeff Kittel, 5/12/09.</p> |External Number=27 |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No |Country=United States }}
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