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|Headline=Union POWs seen playing ball in Macon
|Headline=Union POWs seen playing ball in Macon
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|Sources=<p>Croom, "The War Outside My Window" p. 133</p>
|Sources=<p>Croom, "The War Outside My Window" p. 133</p>
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
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Union POWs seen playing ball in Macon

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Military
Location GA
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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Croom, "The War Outside My Window" contains the diary of Leroy Wiley Gresham of Macon. The May 6, 1862 entry (p. 133): "In the evening went downtown and saw the Yankee prisoners. Some were drilling, others cooking, some played ball."

The was a POW facility, Camp Oglethorpe, in Macon.

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Croom, "The War Outside My Window" p. 133

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