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	Abner Doubleday - MSN Encarta
		Abner Doubleday Major General, United States Army: Born in upstate New York of a family outstanding in military and civil life, he graduated from...
		Abner Doubleday (1819-1893), Union officer in the American Civil War (1861-1865), born in Ballston Spa, New York and educated at the United States Military Academy.
		Doubleday served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War from 1846 to 1848, and in 1861 fired the first gun from Fort Sumter, South Carolina, in response to the Confederate attack at the beginning of the Civil War.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578091/Abner_Doubleday.html (248 words)

	Abner Doubleday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abner practiced as a civil engineer for two years before entering the U.S. Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1842 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Artillery.
		Doubleday was promoted to major general of volunteers on November 9, 1862, commanded 3rd Division, I Corps, 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.
		Doubleday died in Mendham, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abner_Doubleday (1021 words)

	Doubleday, Abner
		Doubleday was promoted to major on May 14, 1861, and commanded the Artillery Department in the Shenandoah Valley from June to August, and then the artillery for Major General Nathaniel Banks' division of the Army of the Potomac.
		Doubleday was humiliated by this snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade, but he returned to division command and fought well for the remainder of the battle.
		Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable; a few years later, he shot his wife to death, apparently because of mental illness, and he was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /entry/Abner_Doubleday (1737 words)

	Abner Doubleday
		Captain Abner Doubleday was born at Ballston Spa, New York, in 1819, and attended schools at Auburn and Cooperstown.
		Doubleday served in the Mexican War and, during the 1850s, in a campaign against the Seminole Indians in Florida.
		Doubleday was not at Cooperstown in 1839; he never referred to the game, much less claimed that he invented it, and his obituary in the New York Times did not mention baseball, either.
	www.tulane.edu /~latner/Doubleday.html (314 words)

	Abner Doubleday - LoveToKnow 1911
		ABNER DOUBLEDAY (1819-1893), American soldier, was born at Ballston Spa, New York, on the 26th of June 1819, and graduated from West Point in 1842.
		He continued to command his division in the Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville campaigns, and on the first day of the battle of Gettysburg he led the I. corps, and for a time all the Union forces on the field, after the death of General Reynolds.
		His younger brother, Ulysses Doubleday (1824-1893), fought through the Civil War as an officer of volunteers, was breveted brigadier-general U.S.V. in March 1865, and commanded a brigade at the battle of Five Forks (1st April).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Abner_Doubleday (310 words)

	Abner Doubleday (1819-1893)
		Abner practiced as a civil engineer for two years before entering the U.S. Military Academy, from which graduated in 1842 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Artillery.
		Doubleday was promoted to major general of volunteers on November 9, 1862, and commanded 3rd Division, I Corps, 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.
		Doubleday was humiliated by this snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/doubleday.html (644 words)

	Abner Doubleday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893), was a career U.S. Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War.
		Although Doubleday was a competent, if colorless, combat general with experience in many important Civil War battles, history remembers him for a false claim, unbeknownst to him.
		At his death, Doubleday left a considerable supply of 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.
	www.streetsboro.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Abner_Doubleday (722 words)

	Abner Doubleday \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Doubleday was actually a cadet at West Point when he was alleged to have mapped out the first baseball diamond, and after graduating in 1842 he enjoyed a distinguished military career.
		The commission was convinced of Doubleday's role by the testimony of an elderly gentleman named Abner Graves, who claimed to be a childhood playmate of Doubleday's and present when the game was invented.
		Doubleday left behind numerous diaries and never claimed to have invented baseball, yet he remains one of the game's great mythological figures.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/D/Doubleday_Abner.stm (352 words)

	My Life in the Old Army: Excerpt
		Abner Doubleday was born on June 26, 1819, in Ballston Spa, New York, the son of a newspaper editor and grandson of a Revolutionary War veteran.
		Doubleday's narration of the campaign in northern Mexico could be dramatic, however; his account of the fear and tension in Monterrey just prior to the battle of Buena Vista, when word was received in that city of a large Mexican Army bearing down on Taylor's forces in Saltillo, is gripping.
		Doubleday was indeed stationed in Galveston on this date, serving as colonel of the 17th Infantry, sent to impose military rule on a defeated nation.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/BOOKS/1998/chancex.htm (3734 words)

	Doubleday (Abner) Papers, c.1861-1879
		Abner Doubleday was born in 1819 in Ballston Spa, New York.
		Abner Doubleday is also credited with inventing baseball in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York, where he became known as an organizer of team ball games (though a game very similar to baseball was played in America much before Doubleday's time).
		Doubleday died in 1893 in Mendham, New Jersey and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.navarrocollege.edu /library/civilwar/finding_aids/a_f/doubleday.htm (390 words)

	Abner Doubleday - FREE Abner Doubleday Biography \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Abner Doubleday 1819-93, once credited as originator of baseball and Union general in the American Civil War, b.
		Doubleday served in the Mexican War and in the Civil War.
		Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839, when he was...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Doubleda.html (879 words)

	ABNER DOUBLEDAY, USA
		Abner Doubleday was born in Ballston Spa, New York, on June 26, 1819.
		Doubleday went to Washington and wrote what was called the "longest battle report of the Union army," in an attempt to vindicate himself from his professional humiliation.
		Doubleday died on January 26, 1893, in Mendham, New Jersey.
	www.historycentral.com /bio/UGENS/USADoubleday.html (230 words)

	Abner Doubleday \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Doubleday was actually a cadet at West Point when he was alleged to have mapped out the first baseball diamond, and after graduating in 1842 he enjoyed a distinguished military career.
		The commission was convinced of Doubleday's role by the testimony of an elderly gentleman named Abner Graves, who claimed to be a childhood playmate of Doubleday's and present when the game was invented.
		Doubleday left behind numerous diaries and never claimed to have invented baseball, yet he remains one of the game's great mythological figures.
	baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/D/Doubleday_Abner.stm (352 words)

	Book Review: Abner Doubleday, Boy Baseball Pioneer
		Some controversy exists about Doubleday's actually being the inventor of the game, and the book's author, Montrew Dunham, doesn't call young Abner the originator of the game; he merely says that he and his brothers and friends liked to play the game.
		Abner stays all by himself in the forest, awaiting the return of his friends and their fathers, while he is convinced that the robbers are nearby.
		Abner's father gets elected to Congress and has to spend many weeks away from his family, in the nation's capital.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /articles/bookreviews/reviewabnerdoubleday.htm (352 words)

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		Baseball invented Abner Doubleday." Even Ezra Warner’s Generals in Blue, the biographical dictionary of Union generals, says Doubleday is more famous "for the canard that he originated the game of baseball than his military career." Most Union generals were forgotten in their lifetimes.
		Abner Doubleday was born on June 26, 1819, at Ballston Spa, NY, whose promoters believed it would become America’s Baden-Baden, Aix-les-Bains and Bath once the world knew of its alkali, sulphur and warm springs, "good for the treatment of rheumatism, gout, liver trouble, blood ailments, dyspepsia, and even cancer." Soldiering ran in the family.
		Doubleday went from captain to brigadier general commanding a brigade of the First Corps, Army of the Potomac.
	www.nypress.com /13/29/news&columns/oldsmoke.cfm (1689 words)

	HistoryBuff.com -- Pre-1845 Baseball: Was Abner Doubleday Really the Originator?
		Abner Doubleday was the first to be officially recognized as the creator of baseball.
		A turn-of-the-century national baseball panel awarded the honor to Doubleday on the strength of a letter from an old schoolmate claiming Abner devised the rules for the game in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York.
		Although his name has stuck with the public, Doubleday was long ago shorn of this honor by historians who examined the evidence.
	www.historybuff.com /library/refearlybase.html (569 words)

	Abner Doubleday - "Father of Baseball"?
		Doubleday has been long taken for granted as the "Father of Baseball," but the truth of the matter is that there probably is not just one "Father," but rather the game has evolved from such other "stick-and-ball" games as the Irish's rounders and England's cricket.
		Doubleday was said to have created the game in 1839, in a rural Cooperstown, New York cow pasture, but records show he was enrolled at West Point at the time.
		Abner Doubleday Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819-January 26, 1893), as an officer in the Union army, commanded the firing of the North's first shots in defense of Fort Sumter, S.C., the opening battle of the American Civil War in 1861.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2063.html (424 words)

	Abner Doubleday
		Doubleday was born in June 1819 in Ballston Spa, New York, just north of Albany, the state's capital.
		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.
		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.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2064.html (470 words)

	Abner Doubleday: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Abner Doubleday (June 26, EHandler: no quick summary.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ab/abner_doubleday.htm (1966 words)

	The Wargamer Presents Antietam - Abner Doubleday
		Credited more as the father of baseball than as a general, Abner Doubleday was a career soldier who between his commissioning in 1847 until the outbreak of the war fought Mexicans, Commanches and Seminoles.
		Doubleday’s most notable accomplishment of the war came at Gettysburg, where he arrived on the field just as his commander, Major General John Reynolds, was felled by a sniper.
		Doubleday was sent to Washington to write what has been called the longest official battle report ever filed by the Union Army.
	www.wargamer.com /antietam/dblday.asp (432 words)

	Abner Doubleday and Theosophy in American: 1876-1884
		Doubleday joined The Theosophical Society in 1878, and the Founders' regard for him was such that Olcott issued a "Foreign Order" from London on January 17, 1879, designating him President ad-interim of the Society.
		All Doubleday received from India were copies of resolutions passed by the General Council of the Society in India, as well as developments in the rules and by-laws forwarded by the Joint Recording Secretary, K. Seervai.
		With the formation of the American Board of Control Abner Doubleday's active involvement in theosophical matters seemed to lessen, although he continued on the Board until it was abolished by Order of the President in 1886, and the American Section organized to replace it.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/theos/th-tsgom.htm (1979 words)

	Abner Doubleday - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Doubleday, Abner (1819-1893), Union officer in the American Civil War (1861-1865), born in Ballston Spa, New York and educated at the United States...
		Although it is clear that modern baseball developed in North America, the exact origin of the game is difficult to determine.
		Abner, in the Old Testament, influential cousin of King Saul of Israel and captain of Saul's army (see 1 Samuel 14:50, 52) during the long struggle...
	encarta.msn.com /Abner_Doubleday.html (215 words)

	CoopersTown Crier (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And while a growing body of evidence suggests the Doubleday story of the genesis of baseball was indeed a myth, it has served Cooperstown well over the years.
		According to Heitz's research there was an Abner Doubleday living in the village during the 1830s, but he was a cousin to the Abner Doubleday who was to become a West Point graduate and hero of the Civil War.
		Kuhn added that with some verification that it was Abner Doubleday's home it might be possible and appropriate to get a historic marker for the site like many of the others around the village.
	www.coopercrier.com /2002/news/stories/01/31/ccabner.html (732 words)

	Abner Doubleday - BR Bullpen
		Abner Doubleday is the mythical "inventor" of baseball.
		Doubleday retired from the Army in 1873 and he moved to San Francisco, CA, where he established the first cable car company in that city.
		Spalding's summary concluded that baseball had been invented by Doubleday in Cooperstown, NY in 1839; that Doubleday had invented the word baseball, designed the diamond, indicated fielder positions, wrote down the rules and the field regulations.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Abner_Doubleday (951 words)

	Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation
		These documents are notable not only as a record of Doubleday's service, Wilburn said, but also because they bear the signatures of the U.S. Presidents and Secretaries of War who served during the middle part of the 19th century.
		And, he notes, personal items of Doubleday's also are available in the park's collection to help introduce Gettysburg's visitors to the New York native who was known for his dignity and courtesy, and who reportedly eschewed profanity, liquor and tobacco.
		In fact, there is a small tear on the brim at the back: Doubleday's own account tells us that the hat was torn by a piece of shrapnel while he was in the line near Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863.
	www.gettysburgfoundation.org /press/pressrel-doubleday.html (683 words)

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