Union army POWs in 1863

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Date of Game 1863
Location Tyler, TX, United States
Field  Add Field Page Camp Ford POW Camp
Home Team  Add Club Page Union army POWs
NY Rules Likely
Description

Union prisoners at the Camp Ford POW Camp in Tyler played baseball. See A. J. H. Duganne, Twenty Months in the Department of the Gulf (1865), chapter 40, the Harpers Weekly, March 4, 1863, as well as more modern sources.

See also the reminiscences of Camp Ford in the National Tribune, July 14, 1910: "For pastime the boys organized a base ball game. Every morning there was one team on the ground playing ball."

Tyler TX is about 100 miles E of Dallas.

Sources

See A. J. H. Duganne, Twenty Months in the Department of the Gulf (1865), chapter 40, the Harpers Weekly, March 4, 1863, as well as more modern sources.

See also chronology entry 1864.26.

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Found by Bruce Allardice
First in Location Tyler, TX
Players Locality Non-local
Entry Origin Sabrpedia



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