The weather was truly fine this morning at sunrise, but
about noon the wind blew a gale. Captain Samuel Darrah's Co. D of which I am
second lieutenant challenged the regiment to play a game of ball for $50 — or
rather Captain Samuel Darrah did — which it accepted but lost the game. The
regiment goes on picket to-morrow, but I don't expect to go. It looks like
rain.
SOURCE: Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Personal Recollections
and Civil War Diary, 1864, p. 27-8
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