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See also:DOUBLEDAY, See also:ABNER (1819–1893) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born at Ballston See also:Spa, New See also:York, on the 26th of See also:June 1819, and graduated from See also:West Point in 1842. He served in the U.S. See also:artillery during the Mexican See also:War, being See also:present at the battles of See also:Monterey and Buena Vista. He was second in command at Fort See also:Sumter, See also:Charleston, See also:South Carolina, when it was bombarded and taken by the Confederates in 1861, and later in the See also:campaign of that See also:year he served in the See also:Shenandoah valley as a See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field officer. In See also:February 1862 he was made a brigadier-See also:general of See also:volunteers and employed in the lines of See also:Washington. He commanded a See also:division in the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac in the second See also:Bull Run campaign and at See also:Antietam, becoming See also:major-general U.S.V. in See also:November 1862. He continued to command his division in the Fredericksburg and See also:Chancellorsville See also:campaigns, and on the first See also:day of the See also:battle of See also:Gettysburg he led the I. See also:corps, and for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time all the See also:Union forces on the field, after the See also:death of General See also:Reynolds. In the latter See also:part of the war he was employed in various administrative and military posts; in See also:July 1863 he was breveted See also:colonel, and in See also:March 1865 brigadier-general and major-general U.S.A. General Doubleday continued in the army after the war, becoming colonel U.S.A. in 1867; he retired in 1873. He published two important See also:works on the See also:Civil War, Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and See also:Moultrie (1876) and Chancellorsville and Gettysburg (1882), the latter being a See also:volume of the See also:series " Campaigns of the Civil War." He died at Mendham, New See also:Jersey, on the 26th of See also:January 1893.
His younger See also:brother, ULYSSES DOUBLEDAY (1824–1893), fought through the Civil War as an officer of volunteers, was breveted brigadier-general U.S.V. in March 1865, and commanded a See also:brigade at the battle of Five Forks (1st See also:April).
End of Article: DOUBLEDAY, ABNER (1819–1893)
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