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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1863 | |Year=1863 | ||
|Year Number=10 | |||
|Headline=5th Massachusetts Artillery Plays Base Ball, 1863-1864 | |Headline=5th Massachusetts Artillery Plays Base Ball, 1863-1864 | ||
|Salience=3 | |Salience=3 | ||
|Tags=Civil War | |Tags=Civil War, Military, | ||
|Location=VA, | |||
|Coordinates=37.4315734, -78.65689420000001 | |||
|State=VA | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>The history of the Fifth MA Battery has four brief references to base ball from March 1863 to February 1864. Two soldiers’ diaries note games on March 11, March 29, and April 11 1863 in Falmouth VA. A Captain Phillips wrote from Rappahannock Station on February 23, 1864: “I am sitting at my desk with my door wide open, and the men are playing ball out of doors.”</p> | |||
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery</span> [1861-1865] (Luther E. Cowles, Boston, 1902), pages 559, 564, 572, 774. Accessed . . .</p> | |||
|External Number=43 | |External Number=43 | ||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
|Country=United States | |||
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| Text | The history of the Fifth MA Battery has four brief references to base ball from March 1863 to February 1864. Two soldiers’ diaries note games on March 11, March 29, and April 11 1863 in Falmouth VA. A Captain Phillips wrote from Rappahannock Station on February 23, 1864: “I am sitting at my desk with my door wide open, and the men are playing ball out of doors.” History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery [1861-1865] (Luther E. Cowles, Boston, 1902), pages 559, 564, 572, 774. Accessed . . . |
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