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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year= | |Year=1863 | ||
|Year Number=147 | |||
|Headline=NJ Artillerymen Play Ball in Virginia | |Headline=NJ Artillerymen Play Ball in Virginia | ||
|Salience=3 | |Salience=3 | ||
|Tags=Civil War | |Tags=Civil War, | ||
|Location=VA | |||
|Country=United States | |||
|Coordinates=37.4315734, -78.65689420000001 | |||
|State=VA | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>[On April 29, 1864] “It rained some during the day, regular April showers. The men amused themselves, jumping, wrestling, running three-legged races. One lot was playing ball. At night there was a drizzling rain.”</p> | |||
<p>Michael Hanifen, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">History of Battery B, First New Jersey Artillery </span>(Republican-Times, Ottawa Illinois, 1905), page 45. Accessed 6/27/09 on Google Books via “of battery b first” search. Battery B was in Falmouth Virginia and about to join the Chancellorsville campaign. Millen writes that this indicates that ballplaying was seen as commonplace in the unit [page 26]. Battery B formed in the Trenton NJ area.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>The Chancellorsville Campaign was in 1863.</p> | |||
|External Number=132 | |External Number=132 | ||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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Text | [On April 29, 1864] “It rained some during the day, regular April showers. The men amused themselves, jumping, wrestling, running three-legged races. One lot was playing ball. At night there was a drizzling rain.” Michael Hanifen, History of Battery B, First New Jersey Artillery (Republican-Times, Ottawa Illinois, 1905), page 45. Accessed 6/27/09 on Google Books via “of battery b first” search. Battery B was in Falmouth Virginia and about to join the Chancellorsville campaign. Millen writes that this indicates that ballplaying was seen as commonplace in the unit [page 26]. Battery B formed in the Trenton NJ area. |
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