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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), With the veteran armies (search)
ys. Some of the men who went home on furlough in 1862 returned to their regiments with tales of a marvelous new game which was spreading through the Northern States. In Camp at White Oak Church near Falmouth, Va., Kearny's Jersey brigade and Bartlett's brigade played this baseball, as it was known. Bartlett's boys won this historic ball-game. It is hard to remember when one reads of the bloody battles, the manly sacrifices, the stern, exhausting work of the Union armies, that over one miBartlett's boys won this historic ball-game. It is hard to remember when one reads of the bloody battles, the manly sacrifices, the stern, exhausting work of the Union armies, that over one million of the soldiers who fought for the Union were not over twenty-one. It was an army of boys, and in Camp they acted as such. They boxed and wrestled and played tricks on each other like boys in school. The thirteenth New York artillery playing football during the siege of Petersburg Boxing at the Camp of the thirteenth New York at City Point, 1864 A diversion at General O. B. Wilcox's headquarters, in front of Petersburg, August, 1864 had taken full measure of recompense for t