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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1861 |Year Number=25 |Headline=Brooklyn Soldiers Play Ball “in Seccesia” |Salience=3 |Tags=Civil War, Military, |Location=VA, |Country=United States |Coordinates=38.84622359999999, -77.30637330000002 |State=VA |City=Fairfax |Text=<p>“In October 1861 a ‘bold soldier boy’ sent the <em>Clipper</em> an account of a baseball game played by prominent Brooklyn club members on the parade ground of the ‘Mozart Regiment, now in Secessia.’” The Mozart Regiment was the 40<sup>th</sup> NY volunteers, and originally comprised men [mostly] from the NYC area. The writer added that the were times when the men were “engaged in their old familiar sports, totally erasing from their minds the all-absorbing topic of the day.” It appears that the regiment was in northernmost Virginia in October 1861, defending Washington.</p> <p>Attributed to a soldier, apparently, in an article in the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Clipper</span>, October 26, 1861, page 220, (per Kirsch book).</p> <p>A more extensive report of the Mozart regiment's play (same games?) is in the New York Sunday Mercury, Oct. 20, 1861, Oct. 27, 1861.</p> |Comment=<p>At the time the 40th was stationed at Camp Sedgwick, near Fairfax, VA.</p> |External Number=5 |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No }}
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