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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.
The Doubleday myth is the claim that the sport of baseball was invented in 1839 by the future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York.In response to a dispute over whether baseball originated in the United States or was a variation of the British game rounders, the Mills Commission was formed in 1905 to seek out evidence.
The Doubledays and its mascot, Abner, are named for Abner Doubleday, the Civil War general and Auburn native apocryphally credited with inventing the game of baseball. Abner wears number 96 in honor of the birth of the team in 1996.
The Doubleday Hill Monument is an American Civil War monument located in Williamsport, Maryland, in what is now River View Cemetery. Erected in 1897, [1] the monument commemorates the crossing of the Potomac River and occupation of the hill by Major General Abner Doubleday. The monument, also known Doubleday Hill, overlooks the Potomac River ...
During the Civil War, the battery was present at the Siege of Fort Sumter in April 1861 under the command of Captain Abner Doubleday. Returned to the artillery defenses of Washington, D.C., and rearmed as a field artillery battery, the unit was merged with Battery G, 1st U.S. Artillery in February 1862. Consolidated and renamed Battery E & G ...
There, the regiment was reassigned and brigaded with the 121st Pennsylvania, 142nd Pennsylvania, and 80th New York under the command of Brigadier General Thomas Rowley. Rowley's brigade was the First Brigade of Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday's Third Division of the Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds' I Corps.
BG Abner Doubleday. 1st Brigade Col Walter Phelps, Jr. 22nd New York: Ltc John McKie, Jr. 24th New York: Cpt John D. O'Brian (w) 30th New York: Col William M. Searing; 84th New York (14th Militia): Maj William H. de Bevoise; 2nd United States Sharpshooters: Col Henry A. V. Post (w) 2nd Brigade Ltc J. William Hofmann
Doubleday was the son of U.S. Congressman Ulysses F. Doubleday and Hester Donnelly. He was born on February 18, 1816, in Albany, New York. [1] He grew up in Auburn, New York, and was the older brother of Abner Doubleday and Ulysses Doubleday, who both fought in the Civil War.