[4] While in Washington, Doubleday remained a loyal Republican and staunch supporter of President Abraham Lincoln. 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. After the war, Abner Doubleday was put in charge of administrative duties in Washington, DC. Find History on Facebook (Opens in a new window), Find History on Twitter (Opens in a new window), Find History on YouTube (Opens in a new window), Find History on Instagram (Opens in a new window), Find History on TikTok (Opens in a new window). One of the persistent legends of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time. Doubleday, who was born to a prominent family in upstate New York in 1819, was still at West Point in 1839, and he never claimed to have anything to do with baseball. Born Abner DOUBLEDAY United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War Born on June 26, 1819 in Ballston Spa, New York, USA , United States Died on January 26, 1893 in Mendham, New Jersey, USA Born on June 26 44 Deceased on January 26 40 Family tree Report an error Doubleday Elisha 1713 - 1806 Bayley Hannah 1732 - 1774 Freeman He also abolished the dangerous practice of tagging runners by throwing balls at them. He published books and newspapers as well. . . Graves, a supposed former classmate of Doubleday's, asserted that: This was the patriotic founder Spaulding had been . 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. Howard and Meade had incurred the New Yorker's enduring wrath, a fact made evident in Doubleday's Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. After General John P. Hatch was wounded in the fighting, Doubleday took command of his division and successfully withstood a Confederate assault. [18] It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008. During the Second World War, the United States liberty ship SS Abner Doubleday was named in his honor. Abner Doubleday was born on June 26, 1819, in Ballston Spa, New York. [9] At Fredericksburg in December 1862, his division mostly sat idle. Spalding was set up to determine baseball's originsnamely if it was invented in the United States or derived from games in the United Kingdom. Early in the Valley Campaigns of 1864. [25], In 2004, the Abner Doubleday Society erected a monument to Doubleday in Iron Spring Park, Ballston Spa, near his birthplace.[26]. Abner Doubleday, one of three sons of Ulysses F. and Hester (Donnelly) Doubleday, was born at Ballston Spa, New York, on June 26, 1819. Volunteers Infantry Regiment, in uniform with his wife, Mary Hewitt Doubleday] / From photographic negative by Brady. All articles are regularly reviewed and updated by the HISTORY.com team. His reinforcements helped temporarily hold the Union line against a barrage by General Thomas Stonewall Jacksons Confederates. [15], There is a monument to Doubleday at Gettysburg erected by his men, admirers, and the state of New York. The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that "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." Family Members. His troops fought in the Second Battle of Manassas August 29-30, then in the Battle of South Mountain in Maryland on September 14. In the 23rd episode of the anime Samurai Champloo, titled "Baseball Blues", Doubleday and Alexander Cartwright are featured as American naval officers who engage the main characters and local Japanese people into a baseball game, which the Americans lose. [4] Abner spent his childhood in Auburn and later was sent to Cooperstown to live with his uncle and attend a private preparatory high school. Doubleday became an Army captain and served as second-in-command at Fort Sumter, a Union sea fort in the Charleston, South Carolina, harbor, when the Confederacy began the Civil War by shelling . This reputation was not glamorous. This has been proven to be false. In short, the Armys stance toward slavery was as divided as it was in the rest of the country. Essay by George B. 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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. Doubleday attended school to study civil engineering and then worked as a surveyor for railroads before receiving an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1838. Updated: July 1, 2021 | Original: March 27, 2013. In the mini-series North and South, George Hazzard is seen watching a primitive form of baseball with a wounded Orry Main, while referring to the game being invented by Doubleday, a fellow West Point cadet. When you examine the life of Abner Doubleday you eventually have to come to the point expressed by classic detective Joe Friday: Just the facts, maam, just the facts. Okay, so here are two facts about General Abner Doubledays life. By the time of the American Revolution, variations of such games were being played on schoolyards and college campuses across the country. The house of his birth still stands in the middle of town and there is a monument to him on Front Street. Overall, Doubleday stood number 19 in a class of 76 members; many first-year students did not make it through the plebe year. His paternal grandfather was also a soldier; he had fought during the American Revolutionary War. https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/abner-doubleday-8040.php. Find History on Facebook (Opens in a new window), Find History on Twitter (Opens in a new window), Find History on YouTube (Opens in a new window), Find History on Instagram (Opens in a new window), Find History on TikTok (Opens in a new window), National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-baseball. Popularity Last Name Doubleday Abner Doubleday Is A Member Of Born In 1819 War Heroes First Name Abner Cancers Abner Doubleday Fans Also Viewed Thomas Edison War Hero Daniel Harvey Hill Samuel P Carter Great spot for baseball fans to catch a game in a historic space. The Doubleday myth arose in the early 1900s when the nation, relatively young and insecure over lack of pedigree, needed to possess the game as uniquely American. During the battle, Army Brig. He was not glamorous. A native of New York, Doubleday graduated from West Point and served during. Course: American Civil War Era, Furman University. Not only is that story untrue, its not even in the ballpark. In other words, the Hall of Fame is built on a lie. He had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the game of baseball. At his death, Doubleday left many letters and papers, none of which describe baseball or give any suggestion that he considered himself a prominent person in the evolution of the game, and his New York Times obituary did not mention the game at all. He criticized Meades handling of the Gettysburg Campaign and argued that a pro-slavery faction existed within the Union Army. While I completely understand hating on the game this is just a weird obsessive level of hate. Many members of his family served in the military, including his father, who fought in the War of 1812, and later became a congressman. In 1875, Mary Stewart Doubleday married . Doubleday fired the Unions first cannon shot but the shot did no damage and on April 14 Fort Sumter surrendered. Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac. Instead, he served as a Union major general in the American Civil War and later became a lawyer and writer. Abner Doubleday was born to Ulysses F. Doubleday and Hester Donnelly, in Ballston Spa, New York, on 26th June 1819. Start Free Trial. He remained in division command for the Battle of Antietam, in which his unit sustained heavy casualties at an area known as the Cornfield. For his performance at Antietam, Doubleday was promoted to major general of volunteers in November 1862. Gen. Rufus King, was incapacitated by an epileptic seizure at the time. After a few years, in 1873, he retired from the army. Abner came from a distinguished family. Doubleday was born in Ballston Spa, New York, in a small house on the corner of Washington and Fenwick Streets. Baseball's real origins date back way father, to at least the 18th century. 6 Tim Arango, Myth of Baseballs Creation Endures, With a Prominent Fan, New York Times, November 20, 2010. He led his men against ten Confederate brigades which consisted of more than 16,000 men. I was hit and pitched over my horses neck by a piece of shell which struck me in the back of the neck. The character organizes the first game of baseball between the six main characters and a group of Chinese immigrants, creating the rules as he goes, primarily to allow him to win. Doubleday's father had participated in the 1812 war. Family. After graduating in 1842, he became a cadet and was commissioned into the 3rd US Artillery as a brevet second lieutenant. The sportswriter Henry Chadwick was a proponent of . Under the rules of engagement, the Fort Sumter garrison was allowed to vacate the fortress. Doubledays force was lightly engaged at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, and he was placed in charge of the newly created Third Division a month later. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 - January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. They became even more popular in newly industrialized cities where men sought work in the mid-19th century. He soon received his first combat assignment. She was the granddaughter of Ulysses F. Doubleday, who served in the War of 1812 and was elected to both the Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth Congresses.She was the niece of General Abner Doubleday.. During the conflict he served as an artillery officer and commanded a supply depot in Camargo, Mexico. Choosing to follow through on the battle plan already enacted by Reynolds, Doubleday ordered his men to hold positions near the Chambersburg Pike. As part of the Northern Virginia Campaign, he had to lead the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division and III corps. He spent six months without orders before being assigned to serve as president of the United States Military Commission in January 1864. Doubleday received some bruises and could not hold the reins of a horse for a long time.20, Doubledays bravery and that of his troops at Antietam earned him promotion to major general of U.S. Research on Gumperts work was provided by Mark Pattison. This claim has been thoroughly debunked by baseball historians. The real Abner Doubleday Doubleday was born in June 1819 in Ballston Spa, New York, just north of Albany, the state's capital. While this myth was later debunked, many baseball teams and fields continue to bear his name. David W. Anderson is author of More Than Merkle and You Cant Beat the Hours, and has spoken at the Seymour Conference and SABR conventions. The pistol inscribed to Abner Doubleday came to light at a meeting of the Sportswriters of America in Philadelphia in 1943, according to Henry M. Stewart Jr. who penned an article in the 1971 "Monthly Bugle" titled "General Abner Doubleday's Deringer." The ostensible reason was a false report by XI Corps commander Major General Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain. His maternal grandfather Thomas Donnelly had joined the army at 14 and was a mounted messenger for George Washington. He was the third of eight children of Ulysses Freeman Doubleday and Hester (Donnelly) Doubleday. (Personal initiative was required since his division commander, Brig. He participated in the second and third days of the battle as a division commander, and was wounded in the neck by a shell fragment in the aftermath of Picketts Charge. At approximately 10:15 AM on the morning of July 1, 1863, Major General Abner Doubleday was thrown into command of the forces along McPherson's Ridge when his immediate superior, General John F. Reynolds, was shot and killed in the early engagement between Union and Confederate infantry. 2 Biographic information on Abner Doubleday is from Bert Gumpert, who was working on a Doubleday biography for the Civil War Roundtable of New York. 00 Cooperstown is home to only 1,730 people, but more than 300,000 journey to the tiny Otsego County village's world-famous cultural attraction each year. Before entering West Point, he had been a civil engineer for two years. Doubleday was transferred to command the garrison at Fort Hamilton in New York.17. On Cemetery Hill, however, the I Corps could muster only a third of its men as effective for duty, and the corps was essentially destroyed as a combat force for the rest of the battle; it would be decommissioned in March 1864, its surviving units consolidated into other corps. In 1871, he commanded the 24th U.S. Infantry, an all African-American regiment with headquarters at Fort McKavett, Texas. [17], Doubleday Field is a 9,791-seat baseball stadium named for Abner Doubleday, located in Cooperstown, New York, near the Baseball Hall of Fame. Play Button Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 Four of the Doubleday children survived to adulthood. Doubleday studied at the US Military Academy, and then served in numerous conflicts, including the Mexican-American War. [20], The Auburn Doubledays are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Doubleday's hometown of Auburn, New York. Abner Doubledays career in the army began with the Mexican-American War, after which he also fought in the Seminole War. 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His grandfather, also named Abner Doubleday, served under "Mad" Anthony Wayne in the American Revolution. As a child, Abner was very short. Below the countdown to Abner Doubleday upcoming birthday. He published newspapers and books and served two terms in the US Congress.4, In the library at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown is a letter that gives some insight into how Abner Doubleday spent his youth. [16] There is a 7-foot (2.1m) obelisk monument at Arlington National Cemetery where he is buried. They then attacked near my position opening with from 100 to 150 pieces of artillery. Seven of those brigades sustained casualties that ranged from 35 to 50 percent, indicating the ferocity of the Union defense. Doubledays childhood days were spent in Auburn, after which he went to Cooperstown to pursue further studies. Gumperts work on Doubleday supplies much of this biography. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1867. Reach, a former Philadelphia Athletics player and the owner of Reach Sporting Goods; George Wright, a former player with the Cincinnati Red Stockings; and James E. Sullivan, president of the Amateur Athletic Union.35, The commissions decision, released in 1908, stated that Abner Doubleday invented baseball at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. 4 Bert Gumpert, Abner Doubleday (unpublished manuscript). Before entering West Point, he had been a civil . Abner spent his childhood in Auburn and later was sent to Cooperstown to live with his uncle and attend a private preparatory high school. Abner Doubleday was born on June 26th 1819 in Ballston Spa, New York. Doubleday was a well-known Civil War general. Soon, he commanded the artillery for Major General Nathaniel Banks division called Army of the Potomac. References to games resembling baseball in the United States date back to the 18th century. In the summer of 1878, Doubleday lived in Mendham Township, New Jersey, and became a prominent member of the Theosophical Society. His only return to combat was directing a portion of the defenses against the attack by Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal A. Abner Doubleday was born at Ballston Spa, Saratoga County, New York, on June 26, 1819, to Ulysses F. Doubleday and Hester (Donnelly) Doubleday. [10], Doubleday's staff nicknamed him "Forty-Eight Hours" as a compliment to recognize his tendency to avoid reckless or impulsive actions and his thoughtfulness and deliberateness in considering circumstances and possible responses. )[8] His men were routed when they encountered Major General James Longstreet's corps, but by the following day, August 30, he took command of the division when Hatch was wounded, and he led his men to cover the retreat of the Union Army. brother Major Seth Doubleday Inventor Thomas Edison was also an important member of the society. Doubleday attended school in Auburn and Cooperstown, N.Y., and in 1838 he was appointed a cadet in the U.S. Military Academy (graduating in 1842). His father was Ulysses F. Doubleday, and his mother was Hester Donnelly. Receive Access to Over Two Billion Family Records. Book excerpt: Abner Doubleday: His Life and Times is a full-length biography of a man who lingered on the fringes of history for nearly 150 years. Until not too terribly long ago, if you asked most people about the origins of baseball, they'd say "a man named Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York in 1839." They'd say that because, until not too long ago, there was a sign there, right next to the Hall of Fame, saying so. In 1905 Abraham G. Mills was appointed by Albert G. Spalding to head a commission to determine when and where baseball began. Luckily I was hit squarely by the smooth round surface. His body is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia. Aug 2021. . He was then transferred to San Francisco to serve as a recruitment officer. He graduated from West Point in 1842 ranking 24th in a class of 56 members on July 1 of that year. His stubborn defenses finally collapsed in the late afternoon, and his I Corps then retreated through the town of Gettysburg to the heights at Cemetery Hill. Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. READ MORE: Baseball Opening Day Fun Facts. No serious historian of baseball believes Doubleday established the rules of baseball, but the myth of Doubleday still persists to some degree. The family all slept in the attic loft of the one-room house. OBITUARY.---After a few weeks' illness Mr. William A. Doubleday departed this life on the 23d inst. [5] He was wounded in the neck on the second day of Gettysburg and received a brevet promotion to colonel in the regular army for his service. Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 - January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. One of three sons born in upstate New York of a family outstanding in military and civil life (his father was a congressman and his grandfather a Revolutionary War Veteran), Abner Doubleday graduated from West Point in 1842, 25th in a class of 56, and was assigned to the Artillery-Infantry. Rental of the field for a baseball or softball game ranges in price between $400 and $550 per game. Thomas died in 1863 after being run over by a bus in New York. This is where Abner Doubleday and baseball were linked for the only time. in Mendham, New Jersey, USA, This form allows you to report an error or to submit additional information about this family tree: Abner DOUBLEDAY (1819), Copyright Wikipdia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0. As it turns out, the real history of baseball is a little more complicated than the Doubleday legend. 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