Abner Doubleday
Major General U.S.V.
Commanded First Corps Army
of the Potomac at Gettysburg
July 1, 1863
Cadet U.S.M.A. Sept. 1, 1838. Brevet Second Lieut. Third U.S. Artillery July 1, 1842. Second Lieut. First Artillery Feb. 24, 1845. First Lieut. March 3, 1847. Captain March 3, 1855. Major Seventeenth Infantry May 14, 1861. Lieut. Colonel Seventeenth Infantry Sept. 20, 1863. Colonel Thirty-Fifth Infantry Sept. 15, 1867. Unassigned March 15, 1869, Assigned to Twenty-Fourth Infantry Dec 15, 1870. Retired Dec. 11, 1873.
Brigadier-General U.S.V. Feb. 3, 1862. Major-General Nov. 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. Sept. 17, 1862 "for gallant and meritorious service 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."
Marker is at the intersection of Reynolds Avenue and Meredith Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Reynolds Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
