This 1885 hardcover volume bound in red cloth with the title embossed in gold on the front cover and spine. Front cover shows some wear from rubbing along the top edge while the spine shows some sun fading.

Title page reads “THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF EMORY UPTON, COLONEL OF THE FOURTH REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY, AND BREVET MAJOR GENERAL, U.S. ARMY.’ The work is authored by Peter Michie who was a professor at the U.S. Military Academy and with an introduction by famed Civil War General James Harrison Wilson.

Vol. meas. approx. 5.50 x 7.50 and runs 511 pages with index.

Binding is excellent and this copy can be read without concern to the book's condition.

Inside front page has presentation to an army officer named Forbes.

Emory Upton (August 27, 1839 – March 15, 1881) was a United States Army General and military strategist, prominent for his role in leading infantry to attack entrenched positions successfully at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House during the American Civil War, but he also excelled at artillery and cavalry assignments. His work, The Military Policy of the United States, which analyzed American military policies and practices and presented the first systematic examination of the nation's military history, had a tremendous effect on the U.S. Army when it was published posthumously in 1904.

General Upton committed suicide due to a possible brain tumor and is buried in Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York.  [AD]

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