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Emory Upton

Emory Upton 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.

August 27, 1839 - March 15, 1881
I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together. — © Emory Upton
I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.
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