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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1862 | |Year=1862 | ||
|Year Number=48 | |||
|Headline=Pork, Hard-Tack, Beans, and Baseball in the 5th Mass Artillery | |Headline=Pork, Hard-Tack, Beans, and Baseball in the 5th Mass Artillery | ||
|Text=<p> | |Salience=3 | ||
| | |Tags=Civil War, Military, | ||
|Location=VA, | |||
|Coordinates=38.3240166, -77.4683177 | |||
|State=VA | |||
|City=Falmouth | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>“We had plenty of pork and hard tack to go with the beans. We amused ourselves when the weather would permit by having a game of baseball.”</p> | |||
<p>William A. Waugh, Reminiscences of the rebellion or what I saw as a private soldier on the 5<sup>th</sup> Mass. Light Battery from 1861-1863. Provided by Michael Aubrecht, May 15 2009. Waugh is here describing life in winter quarters near Falmouth on the Virginia coast and east of Fredericksburg.</p> | |||
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|External Number=128 | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
|Country=United States | |||
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City/State/Country: | Falmouth, VA, United States |
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Text | “We had plenty of pork and hard tack to go with the beans. We amused ourselves when the weather would permit by having a game of baseball.” William A. Waugh, Reminiscences of the rebellion or what I saw as a private soldier on the 5th Mass. Light Battery from 1861-1863. Provided by Michael Aubrecht, May 15 2009. Waugh is here describing life in winter quarters near Falmouth on the Virginia coast and east of Fredericksburg.
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