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Abner Doublday Major General U.S.V. 1819 - 1893 Commanded
First Corps Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg July 1, 1863 Cadet
U.S.M.A. September 1, 1838; Brevet Second Lieut. Third U.S.
Artillery July 1, 1842; Second Lieut. First Artillery February 24,
1854; First Lieut. March 3, 1847; Captain March 3, 1855; Major
Seventeenth Infantry May 14, 1861; Lieut. Colonel Seventeenth
Infantry September 20, 1863; Colonel Thirty-Fifth Infantry September
15, 1867, Unassigned March 15, 1869; Assigned to Twenty Fourth
Infantry December 15, 1870; Retired December 11, 1873.
Brigadier General U.S.V. February 3, 1862; Major General November
29, 1862; Honorably mustered out of Volunteer Service August 24,
1865. Commanding Second Brigade, First Division, Third
Corps (McDowell's) at Manassas (1862); First Division, First Corps
at South Mountain Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and Third Division,
First Corps at Chancellorsville. Brevetted Lieut. Colonel
U.S.A. September 17, 1862, "For Gallant and Meritorious Services at
the Battle of Antietam, MD."; Colonel U.S.A. July 2, 1863, "For
Gallant and Meritorious Services at the Battle of Gettysburg, PA."
Brevetted Brigadier General and Major General U.S.A. March 13, 1865,
"For Gallant and Meritorious Services during the War."
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