Emory
Upton
was born in 1839. After graduated from West
Point in May 1861 he joined the Union
Army. Commissioned as a second lieutenant of the 4th US Artillery,
he took part in the first battle at Bull
Run where he was wounded.
After recovering from his wounds and took part in the Maryland campaign.
After fighting at Antietam (September,
1862) he was promoted to colonel and saw active service at Fredericksburg
(December, 1862), Gettysburg (July,
1863) and the Wilderness (June,
1864).
Wounded at Spotsylvania, Upton was forced to return to Washington.
However, he recovered in time to take part in the siege of Petersburg
before being wounded at Opequon. By the end of the war Upton had reached
the rank of major general.
After the war Upton was appointed commandant of West
Point. He also toured the world collecting information on military
tactics. His books include Tactics
for Non-Military Bodies
(1870), A
New System of Infantry Tactics
(1874) and Armies of Asia
and Europe (1878). Suffering
from an incurable disease, Emory Upton committed suicide on 15th March,
1881.
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