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Knocker Plugged in Head in 6-on-6 Game at Long Island NY Camp

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In an August 2 1861 letter to his brother, a soldier in the 48th NY Volunteer Regiment wrote: “Yesterday we was playing ball 6 on a side, all good players. Their [sic] was but one man hit. He was running across the lower bases [? – LMc] and I was throwing ball. So I caught the knocker out and throwed the ball at him. It hit him on the head and knocked him down on the spot. His head swelled awful. The Capt. Said I was a good shot as it was about 45 yards off. About 200 laughing at him. He stood it like a soldier.”

Letter from J. G. Abbott at Camp Wyman, Fort Hamilton Long Island. Information from an online auction of the letter, accessed 5/19/09. In August 1861, the regiment’s early recruits were settling in at the Long Island camp. Recruiting had begun in July in Brooklyn, and Abbott seems to have traveled there to enlist. In regiment records John G. Abbott appears as a 22-year old sergeant in Company D in 1861. He died in 1863 of wounds received at Fort Wagner, SC – the battle depicted in the movie Glory.

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