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Base Ball in Camp [2 May 1863]













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To the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle. Knowing you feel interested in the soldiers, I send you the score of a match of base ball, between the First Long Island Vols. and the 62d N. Y. Vols. (Anderson Zouaves) contested on the 19th of April. After the game was concluded, which, as the following shows, resulted in favor of the Andersons, the Long Islanders were invited over to the quarters of the former, where they were sumptuously entertained by them. A return match will probably be played soon-incase of such an event I will advise you. The following is the score:

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Brooklyn Eagle, Saturday, May 2, 1863, p.2. 

Anderson Zouaves Newspaper Clippings

Contributed by J. Tierney