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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Abner Doubleday

1819 - 1893

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Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) 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 his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abner Doubleday has received more than 1,098,217 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Abner Doubleday is the 694th most popular military personnel (down from 626th in 2019), the 2,090th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,931st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Abner Doubleday ranks 694 out of 1,468Before him are Adolf Heusinger, Markian Popov, Vasily Petrov, William Halsey Jr., Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, and Kurt von Tippelskirch. After him are Roger of Lauria, Max Immelmann, Won Gyun, Frank Jack Fletcher, Georges Guynemer, and Hiroyoshi Nishizawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Abner Doubleday ranks 32Before him are Gottfried Keller, Elias Howe, Johan Jongkind, Théodore Chassériau, Roger Fenton, and Annibale de Gasparis. After him are Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Christopher Latham Sholes, Felice Orsini, Wilhelm Marr, and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. Among people deceased in 1893, Abner Doubleday ranks 22Before him are Baron Alexander von Bach, Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavaria, Alfredo Catalani, Heinrich Göbel, P. G. T. Beauregard, and Leland Stanford. After him are Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Ferenc Erkel, Alexander Cunningham, Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, and José Zorrilla.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Abner Doubleday ranks 2,090 out of 18,182Before him are Curtis LeMay (1906), Mary McDonnell (1952), Asher Brown Durand (1796), John Young (1930), John Bates Clark (1847), and Gregg Popovich (1949). After him are Ken Wilber (1949), Eugene Nida (1914), Bobby McFerrin (1950), Ellison Onizuka (1946), Ethel Barrymore (1879), and Gabriel Macht (1972).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Abner Doubleday ranks 32Before him are Matthew Ridgway (1895), Chris Kyle (1974), Mark W. Clark (1896), Charles Sweeney (1919), P. G. T. Beauregard (1818), and William Halsey Jr. (1882). After him are Frank Jack Fletcher (1885), Paul Revere (1735), Doc Holliday (1851), James Bowie (1796), Henry H. Arnold (1886), and Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. (1886).