A match game of Base Ball was played on Hickory and Ham streets, between the Imperial, Jr., and Mississippi Base Ball Clubs, resulting in the defeat of the former.
-Missouri Republican, April 10, 1865
On April 9, the day before this notice appeared in the paper and, likely, the day this game was played, the Battle of Appomattox Court House was fought and Lee surrendered to Grant in the parlor of Wilmer McClean's House. With the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, the war in the East was basically over. However, regardless of what you learned in school, the Civil War was fought in other places besides Virginia and it would take some time for it to wind down in the West. So we're not done with this just yet.