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|Text=<p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">A 5-16-61 letter from Camp Scott in Freeport, IL, from a soldier named Tyler in the 15th Illinois Infantry, relates that the solders are playing base ball in camp.</span></p>
|Text=<p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">A 5-16-61 letter from Camp Scott in Freeport, IL, from a soldier named Tyler in the 15th Illinois Infantry, relates that the solders are playing base ball in camp.</span></p>
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|Sources=<p>Email from Bruce Allardice, 3/12/2013. No source given.</p>
|Sources=<p>Email from Bruce Allardice, 3/12/2013. No source given.</p>
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A 5-16-61 letter from Camp Scott in Freeport, IL, from a soldier named Tyler in the 15th Illinois Infantry, relates that the solders are playing base ball in camp.

There were apparently Camp Scott training facilities in WI, PA, and MA in 1861.

 

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Email from Bruce Allardice, 3/12/2013. No source given.

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