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Reminiscences of Forts Moultrie and Sumner ; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

Abner Doubleday

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ABNER DOUBLEDAY [1819-1893] was a career army officer. He served in the Mexican-American War and the Seminole Wars. In 1858, he served at Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor. In 1860, he was second in command at Fort Sumter. He commanded the cannon that returned fire from the Confederate bombardment on April 12, 1861. He was a commanding officer in the Union Army at the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.

After the war, he patented the cable car that runs in SanFrancisco. Later, he was president of the Theosophical Society.

According to historian George B. Kirsch, "Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown."

Abraham G. Mills, president of the National League, headed a committee to study baseball's beginnings. The committee's 1907 report stated, "the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839... in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army."

Language: English

Pages: 261

Format: ebook

Publisher: Heritage Select

Release: May 13, 2022

Reminiscences of Forts Moultrie and Sumner ; Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

Abner Doubleday

5/5 ( ratings)

ABNER DOUBLEDAY [1819-1893] was a career army officer. He served in the Mexican-American War and the Seminole Wars. In 1858, he served at Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor. In 1860, he was second in command at Fort Sumter. He commanded the cannon that returned fire from the Confederate bombardment on April 12, 1861. He was a commanding officer in the Union Army at the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.

After the war, he patented the cable car that runs in SanFrancisco. Later, he was president of the Theosophical Society.

According to historian George B. Kirsch, "Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown."

Abraham G. Mills, president of the National League, headed a committee to study baseball's beginnings. The committee's 1907 report stated, "the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839... in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army."

Language: English

Pages: 261

Format: ebook

Publisher: Heritage Select

Release: May 13, 2022

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