THEODORE AYRAULT

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• THEODORE AYRAULT DODGE (1842–1909)

DODGE (1842–1909)  , American soldier and military writer, was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on the 28th of May 1842 . He received a military education in Germany and subsequently studied at Heidelberg and London University, returning to the United States in 1861 . At the out-break of the Civil War he at once enlisted in the federal army, and he soon rose to commissioned rank . He served in the Army of the Potomac until Gettysburg, where he lost a leg . Incapacitated for further active service, he continued to be employed in administrative posts to the end of the war, and for several years there-after he served at army headquarters, becoming captain in 1866 and brevet lieutenant-colonel in 1867 . He retired in 1870 . His works include The Campaign of Chancellorsville (1881), A Bird's Eye View of our Civil War (1882, later edition 1897), a complete, accurate and remarkably concise account of the whole war, Patroclus and Penelope, a Chat in the Saddle (1883), Great Captains (1886), a series of lectures, Riders of Many Lands (1893), and a series of large illustrated volumes entitled A History of the Art of War, being lives of " Great Captains," including Alexander (2 vols., 1888), Hannibal (2 vols., 1889), Caesar (2 vols., 1892), Gustavus Adolphus (2 vols., 1896) and Napoleon (4vols., 1904-1907) . He died in France, at Versailles, on the 26th of October 1909 .