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Regiment Plays “Favorite Game” After Dress Parade in Elmira NY

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military
Location	NYNY
City/State/Country:	Elmira, NY, United States
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Game
Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	“After [the camp’s dress] parade, which generally lasted about an hour, the camp was alive with fun and frolic . . . leap-frog, double-duck, foot and base-ball or sparring, wrestling, and racing, shared their attention.” J. Harrison Mills, Chronicles of the Twenty-First Regiment, New York Volunteers (21st Veteran Assn., Buffalo, 1887), page 42. The newly-formed regiment, evidently raised in the Buffalo area, was at camp in Elmira in May 1861 in this recollection, and would deploy to Washington in June. A visitor to the camp wrote the next day, “I was not surprised . . . to see how extensively the amusements which had been practiced in their leisure hours in the city [Buffalo?], were continued in camp. Boxing with gloves, ball-playing, running and jumping, were among these. The ball clubs were well represented here, and the exercise of their favorite game is carried on spiritedly by the Buffalo boys.” [page 43.]
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External Number	123
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1861.34 Regiment Plays “Favorite Game” After Dress Parade in Elmira NY"

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