Abner Doubleday, American general (died 1893)

Abner Doubleday

Union Army general (1819–1893)

Abner Doubleday 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. Gettysburg was…