“In 1861, when the Civil War broke out, Otto Boetticher left his job as a commercial artist to join the 68th New York Volunteers. Shortly after enlisting, Boetticher, who was born in Germany and came to the U.S around 1850, was captured and sent to a prison camp in Salisbury, North Carolina. He wasn’t there very long. Thanks to a prisoner swap and after only a few months in captivity, he was set free.
“Before leaving, however, Boetticher, did a drawing of a prisoner game of baseball.”
Continue reading at Ken Zurski’s constantly amazing blog, Unremembered. Ω
His Drawing of Prison Camp Baseball Endures
"Your Dying Charlotte" 
Before my brother-in-law died, he had amassed a long list of baseball games played before the Civil War. He was planning a book about early baseball. His ex took all of that data and research, with our blessing, to hopefully write the book that Craig had expected to do. MLB was already interested in his work.
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