The Life and Letters of Emory Upton, Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of Artillery, and Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army

xxviii, 511 pp. A biography of Emory Upton, remembered for his effective attacks on entrenched positions during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House during the American Civil War. His work 'The Military Policy of the United States from 1775,' published posthumously in 1904, was the first systematic examination of the nation's military history, and was tremendously influential on the U.S. Army, laying the foundation for the high level of efficiency the U.S. Army demonstrated in World War I.