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Union Men Celebrate Thanksgiving with “Grand Game of Townball”

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Tags Civil War, Holidays, Military
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
Age of Players Adult
Holiday Thanksgiving
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“During the [Thanksgiving] holiday of 1863, twenty picked men from the brigade [2nd Brigade, 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac] and some of the members of the old ‘Honey Run Club’ from the Germantown, Pennsylvania area reportedly played ball.”

Patricia Millen, Passion to Pastime: Baseball and the Civil War (Heritage Books, 2001), page 24. Millen cites the New York Clipper for November 14th and November 28, 1863. The location of the game is not indicated in the book.

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