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column of twelve regiments of his corps. For this he was appointed on the spot a brigadier-general of volunteers, 12 May, 1864. He was present dur- ing the siege of Petersburg, in the defence of the capital in July, 1864, and in the Shenandoah cam- paign, where, while commanding a di- vision of infantry at the battle of the Opequan, he was severely wounded. On 19 "Sept., 1864, he was brevetted colonel, U. S. A., for gallant and meri- torious services at Winchester, Va., 19 Oct., 1864, and also received the brevet

• was in command

of the 4th cavalry

division under Gen. James H. Wilson during the closing operations in Alabama and Georgia. He became captain in the 5th regiment of artillery on 22 Feb., 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general, U. S. army, on 13 March, 1865, for gallant service at Seltna, Ala., and also received the brevet of major-general, U. S. army, for services in the field during the civil war. He was in command of the 1st cavalry division.in the District of East Tennes- see in July and August, 1865, and of the District of Colorado from 22 Aug., 1365, till 30 April, 1866, when he was mustered out of the volunteer service. In the reorganization he became lieutenant-colonel, 25th infantry, 28 July, 1866. He had employment in the intervals of active service in preparing an original system of tactics for the use of the mili- tary forces of the government, and in 1867 his sys- tem for infantry was adopted. He was comman- dant of cadets at the U. S. military academy in 1870-'5, and member of a " board to assimilate the tactics " in 1873, when his system, modified for ar- tillery and cavalry, was also accepted. Gen. Upton was sent on a tour of inspection of the armies of Europe and Asia in 1875-"7, and on his return was assigned to the artillery-school at Fort Monroe, and wrote his official report, which was published by the government in 1878. He became colonel of the 4th artillery in 1880, and soon afterward joined his regiment at the Presidio, San Francisco, Cal. His mind became affected, and he committed sui- cide. In his last days he was engaged in tactical studies and in writing a work on " The Military Policy of the United States," which is being pre- Eared for publication by Gen. James H. Wilson, le published " A New System of Infantry Tactics " (New York, 1867 ; 2d ed., 1874) ; " Tactics for Non- Military Bodies " (1870) ; and " The Armies of Asia and Europe" (1878). See "Life and Letters of Major-General Emory Upton," by Peter S. Michie (New York, 1885).

UPTON, George Brnce, manufacturer, b. in Eastport, Me., 11 Oct., 1804; d. in Boston, Mass., 1 July, 1874. He entered Harvard, but left a short time before he had completed his course, and entered business. He spent about three years in Boston, and then removed to Nantucket, where in 1825 he became partner in a firm that manu- factured oils and candles, built ships, and was ex- tensively engaged in the sperm-whale fisheries. While in Nantucket he was sent twice to the gen- eral court, and he was elected for three terms a member of the state senate. In 1845 he removed to Manchester, N. H„ where he established the Manchester print-works, and in 1846 he went to Boston. He was treasurer for eight years of the Michigan Central railroad, and built numerous clip- per-ships for the California and Pacific trade. lie was a member of the executive council of the state in 1853, and of the constitutional convention of the same year. He was active during the civil war in measures for the relief of the sick and wounded soldiers, and made large contributions to the fund for procuring recruits. He opposed the Clarendon- Johnson treaty in regard to the Alabama, and in an open letter to Earl Russell controverted the arguments of that statesman. He was a sufferer from the great fire in Boston in 1872, but gave largely to the fund for the victims, and was the first to organize measures for their relief. Mr. Upton was an active member of the New England historic-genealogical society, and bore most of the expense of compiling and publishing Rev. John A. Vinton's " Upton Memorial " (Bath, Me., 1874).

UPTON, George Putnam, journalist, b. in Roxbury, Mass.. 25 Oct., 1834. He was graduated at Brown in 1854, removed to Chicago, 111., in 1855, and till 1856 was connected with the " Native Citizen " in that place. In 1856-'61 he was city editor of the " Evening Journal," and in 1862-'81 he was musical critic of the Chicago " Tribune," of which he has been an editorial writer since 1872. In 1862-'3 he was also a war-correspondent. Mr. Upton was the first journalist in Chicago to estab- lish a distinctive department of musical criticism. He organized the Apollo musical club in 1872, serving as its first president. Besides many con- tributions to magazines, on art, musical, arid lit- erary topics, he has published " Letters of Pere- grine Pickle " (Chicago, 1869) ; " The Great Fire " (1872); "Memories, a Story of German Love," translated from the German of Max Miiller (1879) ; " Woman in Music," an essay (Boston, 1880 ; en- larged ed., Chicago, 1886) ; lives of Haydn, Liszt, and Wagner, from the German of Louis Nohl (3 vols., Chicago, 1883-'4) ; " The Standard Operas, their Plots, their Music, and their Composers" (1885); "The Standard Oratorios" (1886); "The Standard Cantatas " (1887) ; and " The Standard Symphonies" (1888).

UPTON, Jacob Kendrick, lawyer, b. in Wil- mot, N. H., 9 Oct., 1837. He was graduated at the Literary and scientific institution at New London, N. H., in 1860, read law with a brother at Man- chester, N. H., and was a clerk in the treasury department. He rose till he became chief clerk of the department in March, 1877, and assistant sec- retary of the treasury in 1880. Upon the inaugu- ration of President Cleveland he resigned, and has since been a lawyer and banker in Washington. He has contributed articles on financial subjects to the "American Cyclopaedia," and is the author of " Money in Politics " (Boston, 1884).

UPTON, James, merchant, b. at Salem, Mass., 31 March, 1813; d. there, 30 March, 1879. He studied for college and acquired a knowledge of French and the classics, but entered his father's counting-room at an early age and there received the training that was the basis of his fortune. He was a contributor to all public projects in Salem, where he spent his life, and a liberal donor to Brown university and Newton theological institute. He was an active member of the Essex institute, to the "Proceedings" of which he contributed valuable papers on arboriculture. In 1872 he printed privately a volume of original music entitled