There are many theories to how Baseball started.
One is that Abner Doubleday, a general invented it.
However, this myth has been scorned and falsed by many historians.
No, but Abner Doubleday who invented baseball's rules was stationed there as a union officer.
General Abner Doubleday
It is a myth perpetuated by Spaulding that Abner Doubleday created Baseball. He was nowhere near Cooperstown on the day the myth gives for its creation story. See Ken Burns' Baseball.
Union General Abner Doubleday graduated from West Point in 1842. He ranked 24th in a graduating class of 56. Doubleday served at the Battle of Antietam. Legend has it that he invented baseball. Most historians say the legend is not accurate.
union general sherman before the civil war after the war he returned to the university
Abner Doubleday ( who invented baseball's rules ) was stationed in Fort Sumter as a Union officer.
A General of the Union.
He was a union general and later became the 18th president
Doubleday
The top general for the Union was General Ulysses Grant.
Sherman was the union general in Atlanta.
Ulysses S. Grant was the union general