When it comes to card-playing, most reenactors are familiar with Euchre and Poker. However, I believe I have found a reference to "Pitch", a game that may be familiar to my comrades from the Sucker State.
None other than Si Klegg himself:
Reference: Corporal Si Klegg and His Pard Shorty
Chapter XXXIV, The Rebels Cut the "Cracker-Line" and Si is Put on Quarter Rations, A "Square" Meal
Any pitch-players out there? I played a lot of pitch in college in western Illinois and haven't heard of folks from anywhere else who'd heard of the game.
Am I reading the quote wrong?
...discuss...
None other than Si Klegg himself:
"Thar!" exclaimed Si, as he and Shorty flung down a box of hardtack with such force as to break it open, "them rebils thought they had a purty good hand, but we've made 'high, low, Jack' a-ready 'n' in a day er to we'll give 'em a lively tussle fer the 'game.' We've jest got the keerds ter do it with now!"
Chapter XXXIV, The Rebels Cut the "Cracker-Line" and Si is Put on Quarter Rations, A "Square" Meal
Any pitch-players out there? I played a lot of pitch in college in western Illinois and haven't heard of folks from anywhere else who'd heard of the game.
Am I reading the quote wrong?
...discuss...
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