This is a rare Civil War CDV carte de visite of Captain Abner Doubleday. As can be seen from the back stamp, the albumen photograph is from a negative by Matthew Brady ("Brady's National Portrait Gallery"). The print was published by E. Anthony of New York City. The CDV measures 3 3/4 x 2 7/16 inches and is in very good condition. The back has a 19th century handwritten pencil inscription identifying Doubleday.
Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the 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 Major General George Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men. In San Francisco, after the war, he obtained a patent on the cable car railway that still runs there. In his final years in New Jersey, he was a prominent member and later president of the Theosophical Society. Doubleday is often mistakenly credited with having invented baseball, although he never made such a claim, and there is no evidence to support it.
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