Abner Doubleday
3 books
War & Military
452
Abner Doubleday - Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
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. Two years later, after a series of battles (including Antietam, where...
6 hours 46 minutes
*Non-fiction
438
Abner Doubleday - Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)
Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Francisco, and is credited (though perhaps erroneously) with inventing the game...
3 hours 35 minutes
*Non-fiction
547
Abner Doubleday - Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61
Now that the prejudices and bitter partisan feeling of the past are subsiding, it seems a fitting time to record the facts and incidents connected with the first conflict of the Rebellion. Of the eleven officers who...
3 hours 21 minutes
