Chancellorsville and Gettysburg

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By: Abner Doubleday

Narrated by: Mark F. Smith

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Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. Two years later, after a series of battles (including Antietam, where he was wounded), Doubleday took over a division in the Army of the Potomac's First Corps. These are his memoirs of service in two of the War's great campaigns. At Chancellorsville, a very promising start made by General Hooker against Lee's Confederate forces fell to a defeat when, in Doubleday's estimation, normal and prudent precautions against surprise in the heavily-wooded battlefield were not carried out; he also seemingly apologizes for Hooker's lack of leadership during the battle as a result of his having been stunned by a cannon ball hitting the post against which he was leaning.

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Very interesting

I lived for years in Ballston Spa, NY where the General was born and would see the small house with the marker outside the claims he "invented baseball". It never mentioned that he was a Union general. Anyway, I found the book very interesting with his view of the two campaigns. One issue is I found the musical background very distracting.