5/17/2005

Believe it or not - ACW baseball

From the Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star:
In a telephone interview, Kirsch, a professor of history at Manhattan College, said a Christmas Day 1862 game between Union soldiers in Hilton Head, S.C., was watched by 40,000 troops.
Would that include ex-military, militia, firefighters, and multiple expeditions in transit to somewhere?