The fifth anniversary of the official founding of Northwest History Network was celebrated at an outing at Fort Vancouver on Sunday, July 21. The highlight of the day was the 1860s baseball game between the Occidentals and Sherman’s Army. NHN member Val Ballestrem of the Occidentals acknowledges that the call went against him—“I wuz robbed!”—when he tagged a Sherman’s Army man at home plate. The valiant Occidentals immediately lost the game by a score of 11 to 10. It was indeed a historic occasion.