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|Headline=Confederate Prisoners Play Bull Pen at Fort Warren
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Confederate Prisoners Play Bull Pen at Fort Warren

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War, Military
City/State/Country: Boston, MA, United States
Game Bull Pen, Foot Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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Confederate prisoners played "bull pen" at the Fort Warren POW camp in Boston Harbor. See McGavock Diary, p. 626 (May 14, 1862)

They played "foot ball" on May 17, 23, June 28th, 1862.

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Gower and Allen, "Pen and Sword" (McGavock Diary), p. 626 (May 14, 1862)

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