Early baseball in Illinois/Game 4

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Location	Illinois
Year	1864
Note on date	Sometime in 1864
City	Rock Island
State	Illinois
Country
Site	Rock Island POW Camop
Was NY rules baseball	Unknown
Played by	Non-locals

Confederate army prisoners at the Rock Island, Illinois POW Camp, played baseball there. See Ben McAdams, Rebels at Rock Island (2000), p. 68, citing the diary of J. W. Minnich, Private 6th Louisiana Infantry.

Sources

Ben McAdams, Rebels at Rock Island (2000), p. 68