Abner Doubleday: A Civil War Biography

by Thomas Barthel

While Abner Doubleday is remembered primarily, and mistakenly, for having "invented" baseball (he did not), it was his selfless exercise of duty to his nation that should be honored. Following his youth in Auburn, New York, and his days as a cadet at West Point to the Union general's involvement in the American Civil War and his public service afterwards, he is revealed in this biography as a man who took unpopular stands but was guided by a firm...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786445610
• ISBN13: 9780786445615
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher