Correspondence of Major General Emory Upton, Vol. 1, 1857–1875 (eBook)

Salvatore Cilella (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1
406 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-338-3 (ISBN)

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Emory Upton (18391881) was thrust into the Civil War immediately upon graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in May of 1861. He was wounded three times during the war. He participated in nearly every major battle in the Eastern Theater including Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania, where he led a prominent attack on entrenched Confederate positionsa signal of Upton's brilliance as an officer and of his military creativity that foreshadowed his later work in revising the Army's tactics. Upton was mustered out of service in 1866 and later named commandant of cadets at West Point, a position that carved a path for Upton to focus more on Army tactics and reforms.Until now, the only lenses through which scholars could study Upton were two biographies published nearly a century apart but practically identical in scope and treatment. The two-volume Correspondence of Major General Emory Upton follows Upton through his enrollment at West Point to his extensive Army activities following the Civil War and contains the bulk of his wartime correspondence. Volume one, with Upton's Civil War correspondence encompasses both larger battle details and day-to-day activities in the life of a soldier. His letters reveal a mercurial individual: a humorous person used to suffering and rejoicing, who could be flawed and brilliant, vain and humble.These selected letters and reports, expertly annotated and gathered from repositories across the country, present a more complex, human Emory Upton. He is both the ';clean, pure, and spotless' individual of biographies and the ambitious, yet flawed Army officer obsessed with his career. These volumes explore his trials and frustrations as well as his triumphs.Salvatore G. Cilella Jr., now retired, was president of the Atlanta Historical Society. He is the author ofUpton's Regulars: The 121st New York Infantry in the American CivilWarandFund Raising for Small Museums in Good Times and Bad.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Voices of the Civil War
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: American Civil War personal accounts • battlefield leadership in Civil War • Civil War correspondence collections • Civil War Generals • Civil War strategy and tactics • Civil War tactics and reforms • Eastern Theater battles • Emory Upton biography • Emory Upton letters • Fredericksburg battle books • Gettysburg leadership • historical military figure biographies • military career Emory Upton • military command and reform books • military innovation in Civil War • military officer personal letters • Spotsylvania attack strategy • Union Army generals biography • Union generals correspondence • U.S. Army reforms post-Civil War • U.S. Military History • West Point graduates Civil War • West Point leadership during Civil War
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-338-9 / 1621903389
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-338-3 / 9781621903383