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| Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry playing cards in front of tents near Petersburg, Va. Courtesy Library of Congress |
To assuage the boredom that came between marching, drilling, and battles, soldiers on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line engaged in various pastimes ranging from cards to cricket. Popular card games included of course poker and 21, but such games as euchre and keno were also played. Besides cards, dominoes, chess, and checkers were portable, quiet games that the soldiers could play as well if they could get their hands on them. Those seeking more raucous forms of recreation wrestled, boxed, played leapfrog, or participated in horse racing or a game of cricket. In at least one instance, a regiment knocked down wooden pins with cannon balls.
Source: "Past Times of the 1860s," Civil War Trust. Located at
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/on-the-homefront/culture/pasttimes.html. Accessed 1/12/2012.
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