Early baseball in Texas/Game 5

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Location	Texas
Year	1863
City	Tyler
State	Texas
Country
Site	Camp Ford POW Camp
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Non-locals
Team 1	Union army POWs
Found by	Bruce Allardice

Union prisoners at the Camp Ford POW Camp in Tyler played baseball. See A. J. H. Duganne, Twenty Months in the Department of the Gulf (1865), chapter 40, the Harpers Weekly, March 4, 1863, as well as more modern sources.

Sources

See A. J. H. Duganne, Twenty Months in the Department of the Gulf (1865), chapter 40, the Harpers Weekly, March 4, 1863, as well as more modern sources.