Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)
Author: first_name: Abner
last_name: Doubleday
Language: English
Year: 1976

Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Francisco, and is credited (though perhaps erroneously) with inventing the game of baseball.<br /><br />

In 1861, he had the distinction as a captain to be second-in-command of Ft. Moultrie, one of the harbor defenses of Charleston, SC.. When that state seceded from the Union, Doubleday and the garrison of artillerists manning the fort were cut off from supplie