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Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893)[1] was a career United States Army officer and Union major general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the early fighting at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg was his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men. In San Francisco, after the war, he obtained a patent on the cable car railway that still runs there. In his final years in New Jersey, he was a prominent member and later president of the Theosophical Society.
In 1908, fifteen years after his death, Doubleday was declared by the Mills Commission to have invented the game of baseball (a claim never made by Doubleday during his lifetime). This claim has been thoroughly debunked by baseball historians.[2][3]
In 1908, fifteen years after his death, Doubleday was declared by the Mills Commission to have invented the game of baseball (a claim never made by Doubleday during his lifetime). This claim has been thoroughly debunked by baseball historians.[2][3]
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The Rest of the Story Abner Doubleday
Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that June 26, 1819 was birth of United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War Abner Doubleday.
He was the 1,145th man to graduate from West Point and he graduated with the class of 1842.
His classmates include BG Henry Lawrence Eustis; MG William Stark Rosecrans; CSA MG Gustavus Woodlawn Smith; CSA LTG Daniel Harvey Hill; MG Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana; CSA LTG Richard Herron Anderson; CSA MG Lafayette McLaws
Paul Harvey - Abner Doubleday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOO7y5nm67A
Images
1. Abner Doubleday and wife, Mary.
2. Abner Doubleday Twice Signed Civil War Carte.
3. Abner Doubleday's tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery
Background from u-s-history.com/pages/h2064.html
Abner Doubleday - the real Abner Doubleday
Doubleday was born in June 1819 in Ballston Spa, New York, just north of Albany, the state's capital. He was from a family of public servants — his grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War and his father served two terms in the U.S. Congress.
Abner Doubleday
Abner plied his trade as a civil engineer for two years before entering the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, from which he was graduated in 1842. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the Third U.S. Artillery.
Rising through the ranks as a career soldier, he was named a Union general in the American Civil War.
Military career
At the start of the Civil War, he was assigned to the First U.S. Artillery at Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. He fired the first return cannon shot in answer to the Confederate volley on April 12, 1861, sparking the war.
Doubleday also served in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, 1861. He was appointed brigadier general of volunteers in February 1862, and saw action at the Second Battle of Bull Run, at South Mountain, Antietam (where he was wounded), and Fredericksburg (where his division was mostly idle).
He was promoted to major general of volunteers in November 1862, and saw action at Chancellorsville, and took over corps command for a day when General John F. Reynolds was killed in opening of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863.
Army commander George G. Meade replaced Doubleday after the first day of battle, one in which the I Corps was overwhelmed by a Confederate assault. Meade had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating to South Mountain.
Doubleday was humiliated by the snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade. He was wounded in the neck on the second day of the battle, then assumed mostly administrative duties in the defense of Washington, D.C., including the attack by Jubal A. Early in the Valley Campaigns of 1864.
Doubleday also served in the Mexican-American War (1846-48) and Seminole wars.
Doubleday retired from the Army in 1873 and moved to San Francisco, where he obtained a charter for the cable car railway that still runs there. He died in 1893, in Mendham, New Jersey, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery."
FYI LTC Wayne Brandon LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj Robert Thornton CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones SSG Donald H "Don" Bates PO3 William Hetrick PO3 Lynn Spalding SPC Mark Huddleston SGT Rick Colburn CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke SP5 Jeannie Carle ] SCPO Morris Ramsey Sgt Albert Castro SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
He was the 1,145th man to graduate from West Point and he graduated with the class of 1842.
His classmates include BG Henry Lawrence Eustis; MG William Stark Rosecrans; CSA MG Gustavus Woodlawn Smith; CSA LTG Daniel Harvey Hill; MG Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana; CSA LTG Richard Herron Anderson; CSA MG Lafayette McLaws
Paul Harvey - Abner Doubleday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOO7y5nm67A
Images
1. Abner Doubleday and wife, Mary.
2. Abner Doubleday Twice Signed Civil War Carte.
3. Abner Doubleday's tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery
Background from u-s-history.com/pages/h2064.html
Abner Doubleday - the real Abner Doubleday
Doubleday was born in June 1819 in Ballston Spa, New York, just north of Albany, the state's capital. He was from a family of public servants — his grandfather fought in the Revolutionary War and his father served two terms in the U.S. Congress.
Abner Doubleday
Abner plied his trade as a civil engineer for two years before entering the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, from which he was graduated in 1842. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and assigned to the Third U.S. Artillery.
Rising through the ranks as a career soldier, he was named a Union general in the American Civil War.
Military career
At the start of the Civil War, he was assigned to the First U.S. Artillery at Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. He fired the first return cannon shot in answer to the Confederate volley on April 12, 1861, sparking the war.
Doubleday also served in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, 1861. He was appointed brigadier general of volunteers in February 1862, and saw action at the Second Battle of Bull Run, at South Mountain, Antietam (where he was wounded), and Fredericksburg (where his division was mostly idle).
He was promoted to major general of volunteers in November 1862, and saw action at Chancellorsville, and took over corps command for a day when General John F. Reynolds was killed in opening of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863.
Army commander George G. Meade replaced Doubleday after the first day of battle, one in which the I Corps was overwhelmed by a Confederate assault. Meade had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating to South Mountain.
Doubleday was humiliated by the snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade. He was wounded in the neck on the second day of the battle, then assumed mostly administrative duties in the defense of Washington, D.C., including the attack by Jubal A. Early in the Valley Campaigns of 1864.
Doubleday also served in the Mexican-American War (1846-48) and Seminole wars.
Doubleday retired from the Army in 1873 and moved to San Francisco, where he obtained a charter for the cable car railway that still runs there. He died in 1893, in Mendham, New Jersey, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery."
FYI LTC Wayne Brandon LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj Robert Thornton CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones SSG Donald H "Don" Bates PO3 William Hetrick PO3 Lynn Spalding SPC Mark Huddleston SGT Rick Colburn CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke SP5 Jeannie Carle ] SCPO Morris Ramsey Sgt Albert Castro SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
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When I was young I was vain. Needed glasses. The base ball went to quick. Fast pitch softball is another thing. I was the only pitcher in the army league in Schwaebisch Hall. We were beating Munich. 2-0. They could not hit me. We were on the bench drinking a beer and we about to score again. Munich went to the umpire and says it is against the rules. None of us had even had more than a sip. We had too forfeit the game. We dropped out told USAREUR mwr you are a joke. Last year for that leauge.
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