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General Hooker's Players "Pretty Badly Beat", 70-11

Salience Peripheral
Tags Civil War
City/State/Country: VA?, US
Game Massachusetts Game?
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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The match game of base ball between the staff, and orderlies of Gen. Hooker, and thirteen players from our regiment came off this forenoon, the result was in favor of our regiment, the innings stood seventy to eleven, pretty badly beat wasn't they.  They will play another game this afternoon.  Gen. Hooker ordered Col. Wood to postpone brigade drill, that they might play.

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Letter of April 13, 1864 by Lt. Thomas Howland.  Obtained via Massachusetts Historical Society, August 2015.

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Do we know where the Regiment was camped?  Virginia, say?

Is it fair to guess that the game was played by MA rules?

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Submitted by Paul Johnson
Submission Note Email of 8/16/2015



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