Correspondence of Major General Emory Upton, Vol. 2, 1875–1881 (eBook)

Salvatore Cilella (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1
367 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-345-1 (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 ever 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 of Upton. 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 Emory Upton's wartime correspondence. Volume two collects Upton's foreign correspondence and observations on military tactics and Army reform. At the behest of U.S. Army Commanding General William T. Sherman, Upton was sent on a tour to study the armies of Asia and Europe, and more specifically the German army after conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War. This tour resulted in the publication of his monumentalThe Armies of Europe and Asia,which warned that the U.S. Army was woefully below the standards of European nations,and between Upton's death in 1881 and the turn of the twentieth century, military policy was fiercely debated in both the military and popular press. Upton's ideas on reform were often central to the arguments, and his letters and writings provoked a wide range of discussion over military and, inevitably, civilian issues.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 Michie's 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,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: 1-62190-345-1 / 1621903451
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-345-1 / 9781621903451