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Published by Greenwood Press, 1968
Seller: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Thus. Facsimile of the 1874 edition.
Published by D. Appleton & Company, NY, 1867
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. . . . . 16mo, hardcover. No dj, blue cloth. Fair condition. Old moisture exposure to covers, not penetrating to contents. Gilt spine title partly illegible. Contents complete:, clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy and tight. 392 pp.,109 Plates, + ads in rear. Army, Civil, History, Military, States, United, War,
Published by D. Appleton & Co, New York, 1869
Seller: Counterpoint Records & Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: Good. green cloth with decorative blind-stamping and border at front and back, gilt illustration and titles at spine, minor wear to edges, corners bumped, several spots of light discoloration to covers, light rubbing to covers. book body tight, previous seller's stamp at front free end-paper, previous owner's name at front free end-paper, else clean, light foxing throughout, illustrated moderately in black and white.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1882
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Revised Edition. 32mo, 4.75 x 3.7 in., pp. 445, [1]. Flexible navy blue leather cover with cloth spine. Gilt title and American Eagle to front. Brass latch works well. Rubbing to edges; chips to front corners. Previous owner's name, rank, and location to verso of front free endpaper. Seam tape repair to front endpaper. Hinge split at copyright page, but pages holding well. This copy was the property of "M. F. BOWERS/ 151 SERGT. Co. D, 20TH INF./ FT. RENO, INDIAN TERR." The first Sergt. of each infantry company carried a copy of Upton's Tactics. It was his responsibility to see that the men in his company learned the "manual of arms" and other infantry movements. From 1882-1884, the 20th Infantry Division was stationed at Ft. Reno, Ind. Terr. In 1885 the 20th Infantry moved to Montana Territory. Companies were stationed at Fts. Assiniboine and Maginnis, and Camp Poplar River. Sheriff M. F. Bowers (maybe ex- 1" Sgt. Bowers) was sheriff of El Paso County, Colorado from 1894- 96. He was involved in the Cripple Creek Miners' Strike of 1894. Sheriff Bowers assisted the mine owners by raising a force of 1,200 deputies to stop the strike. Gov. Davis Waite sent in the Colo. State Militia to intervene and ended the strike in June 1894 in favor of the miners.
Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1870
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, 16mo, pp. 160; 16 plates (on 15 leaves), tipped in advertisement printed on yellow paper at the front for Upton's New System of Infantry Tactics (upon which this manual for organizing civic processions and parades is based), 25 pages of printed music at the back for drum and bugle calls; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine slightly sunned, else very good. A West Point graduate and an abolitionist, Upton had a distinguished record in the Civil War. One scholar has commented, "As a commander in all three branches of the army (artillery, infantry, and cavalry), Upton has seldom, if ever, had his record equaled" (quoted in American National Biography Online). After the war he became an instructor at the U.S. Military Academy. Upton was at West Point in 1866-1867, instructing cadets and working on his new tactics. In 1867 his Infantry Tactics, based on American, not French, experience and designed for the firepower of rifled breechloaders, was adopted by the U.S. Army and "hailed as the greatest single advance in tactical instruction since the work of General Steuben (Friedrich von Steuben) during the Revolution" (Williams, [Americans at War: The Development of the American Military System (1960)], p. 91).-ANB Online. Upton was a strong advocate of a professional military, a politically unpopular idea after the Civil War. But his influence continued even after his death in 1881. Upton's influence continued in the officer corps, where his unfinished Military Policy was read in manuscript. In 1899 Elihu Root became Secretary of War, and his reforms relied heavily on Upton's work. Root's War Department published posthumously Upton's Military Policy, the best and most influential case for a professional army as the primary means of defense. In the First World War, the army was basically organized as Upton recommended. Elements of his tactics remained influential, as did his example of dedication. Upton is the subject of a fine biography by Stephen Ambrose, Upton and the Army (1964).