Arms, heads, blankets, guns and knapsacks were thrown and tossed into the clear air. "They were at once enveloped in a dense cloud of smoke and dust," a Northern soldier said of the scene. Pickett’s Charge essentially ended the Battle of Gettysburg, with the Confederacy losing roughly half its men involved in the charge. George Pickett to lead roughly 12,500 rebel soldiers in an attempt to break through the center of the Union line at Cemetery Ridge. A day later, he was there during Pickett's Charge, when Lee ordered Gen. After returning to command his division on July 2 at Gettysburg, Doubleday was wounded in the neck.
No fan of Doubleday's to begin with, Meade believed Howard and Hancock's version of events and replaced Doubleday as 1st Corps commander. Others would say he's an inexperienced guy thrown into corps command. "Some people think Doubleday saved the day. "In other words, insinuating that they ran. Thomas McShea, history instructor at the U.S. There's a few dispatches with lines like, ' Doubleday's men gave way,' or 'Doubleday's corps gave way,'" Maj.
Meade - who was the commander of the Army of the Potomac. "The other corps commanders, Howard and Hancock, in their reports back to Gen. While the Confederates occupied Gettysburg after that first day, Doubleday's decision to retreat to higher ground likely prevented casualties while providing the Union Army with strategic advantages and allowing it time to regroup as reinforcements arrived. (Photo courtesy of the National Park Service) Abner Doubleday is commemorated with a statue at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Lee with his second - and last - chance to invade the North after the rebels were rebuffed at Antietam. Before he ordered Union troops to fire for the first time during the Civil War at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861, he had already been involved in two conflicts - the Mexican-American War and the Third Seminole War in Florida.ĭoubleday first saw combat in the Civil War during the Second Battle of Bull Run in Virginia in August 1862 a month later, he was at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland - the bloodiest day of the war - where an artillery shot knocked him off his horse.Ī small town in southern Pennsylvania, Gettysburg presented Confederate Gen. The son of a War of 1812 veteran, Doubleday graduated from the U.S. While that contention has been largely debunked, Doubleday's alleged ties to baseball have overshadowed his extensive military service. Doubleday's name resonates today widely as the supposed inventor of baseball.
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