Early baseball in South Carolina/Game 2

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Location	South Carolina
Year	1862
Month	12
Date	25
City	Hilton Head
State	South Carolina
Country
Was NY rules baseball	Likely
Played by	Non-locals
Team 1	team from the 165th NY Infantry
Team 2	team from the 47th and 48th NY
Found by	Bruce Allardice

This famous game was played Christmas Day at Hilton Head, before some 10,000 spectators, between the nine of the 165th NY Infantry, and a team from the 47th and 48th NY Infantry. All three regiments were from NYC/Brooklyn, and presumably the members played amateur NY-style ball.

Sources

Kirsch, "Baseball in Blue & Gray", and online soruces.