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Theodore Ayrault Dodge was born on May 28, 1842 at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States. He was a son of Nathaniel S. and Emily (Pomeroy) Dodge.
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Theodore Ayrault Dodge was born on May 28, 1842 at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States. He was a son of Nathaniel S. and Emily (Pomeroy) Dodge.
Dodge was educated abroad, in Berlin, at the University of Heidelberg, and at University College, London.
He had taken a bachelor’s degree in law at Columbian (now George Washington) University.
Dodge returned to the United States in July 1861 and at once enlisted in the New York militia. He entered the volunteer army as a first lieutenant, 1016th New York Infantry.
He was slightly wounded at Chantilly, in the northern Virginia campaign that summer, and immediately after was taken sick with typhoid fever, which kept him from duty until November.
He then joined the 119th New York Infantry, to which he had been transferred, and served as its adjutant at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
He was wounded on the first day at Gettysburg, and fell into the hands of the Confederates, but was left behind during their retreat after the battle and did not remain a prisoner.
His wound required the amputation of his right leg below the knee.
He was promoted to major, August 17, 1864, and mustered out of the volunteer service, December 1, 1866.
Appointed captain of infantry in the regular army, July 28, 1866, and later brevetted lieutenant-colonel, he served as superintendent of the War Department buildings until infirmity resulting from his wound caused his retirement from active service, April 28, 1870.
Upon retirement from military service he made his home at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and entered upon a business career with the purpose of “gathering a fortune which should leave him free for the more congenial pursuit of letters”, , becoming treasurer and manager of the McKay Sewing Machine Company in 1870.
His business did not absorb all his time, however, some of which he was able to devote to military history.
His first studies were concerned with the Civil War, but his books were not published until after he had extended his researches to a wider field.
In 1877 he went abroad for two years to study European campaigns, and this visit was followed by repeated trips, in the course of which he crossed the ocean over eighty times, until finally, after his retirement from business in 1900, he took up his home in Paris, in order to make use of its library facilities in studying the career of Napoleon.
He planned a history of the art of war, as exemplified in the careers of “great captains. ”
His works were careful studies, based not only on examination of written records but also on personal inspection of the actual battle sites in Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, where he made his own topographical sketches.
In the United States there was little appreciation of the practical value of the study of early military history, and at the time of their publication his works attracted the interest of classical scholars rather than of soldiers.
The World War has brought about some change in this respect. A series of lectures delivered by Dodge before the Lowell Institute was also published (1889) under the title of Great Captains, the name he adopted to designate the series of works already referred to.
His literary activity was not confined to military subjects. He wrote numerous essays, reviews, and even verses, and published two books inspired by his interest in horsemanship.
He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a visiting lecturer at Harvard University.
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Dodge was twice married, first, on October 19, 1863 Jane Marshall Neil of Columbus, and second, on October 8, 1892 Clara Isabel Bowden of Boston, who survived him.