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 UPTON

UPTON

Army of till' Potomac, in the Maryland campaign, taking part in the battles of South Mountain, Antii'tam and the marcli to Falmouth. He was proniuted colonel of 12lst New York volunteers, Oct. 23, 1862; and served at Fredericksburg, Salem Heights, and Gettysburg, where he commanded a brigade. 6th army corps. Army of tiie Potomac. He was brevetted major, Nov. 8, 1863, for gal- lantry at Rappahannock Station, Va. He com- manded ills brigade at the battles of the Wilder- jiess. and at Spottsylvania. where he led the as- saulting column and was severely wounded. May 10. 1864. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel. May 10. 1864, for gallant services at Spottsylvania, and was promoted brigadier-general, U.S.V., May

12. 1864. He participated in the battles of Cold Harbor. Petersburg, the defense of the capitol at "Washington and commanded the 1st division in the battle of Onequan, where he was wounded. He w;is brevetted colonel, Sept. 19, 1864, and major-general, U.S.V., Oct. 19, 1864, for services at Winchester; was promoted captain, 5th artillery, Feb. 22, 1865; commanded the 4th cavalry division in Gen. J. H. Wilson's operations in Alabama and Georgia, March-May. 1865; and was brevetted brigadier-general, U.S.A., March

13. 186-"). for gallant and meritorious services in the field during the Rebellion. He commanded the 1st cavalry division, district of eastern Tennes- see, July-August, 1865; commanded the district of Colorado, 1865-66; and was mustered out of the volunteer service, April 30, 1866. He was com- mandant of cadets of the U.S. Military academy, 1870-75; went on a tour of inspection abroad, 187.5-77; was assigned to the artillery school for practice at Fort Monroe in 1877. and was promoted colonel, 4th artillery, in 1880 and stationed at the Preside, San Francisco, Cal., 1880-81. He is the author of: System of Military Tactics, adopted by the U.S. army in 1867; Tactics for Cavalry and Artillery, adopted in 1873, and a manuscript of Tfie Military Policy of the United States. He died by his own hand in San Francisco, March 14, 1881.

UPTO.N, George Putnam, journalist, was born in B<jston, Mass., Oct. 25,1834; son of Daniel Putnam and Lydia (Noyes) Upton; grandson of Eljenezer and Polly (Putnam) Upton, and of Benjamin and Lydia Noyes, and a descendant of John Upton and Eleanor Stuart, who came from Scotland and settled in Salem Village, ^Mass., now Danvers, in 1652. He attended the Roxbury Latin School and was graduated from Brown university, A.B., 1854, A.M.. 1857. He removed to Cliicago, III., in 1855; was connected with the Xntive Citizen, 1855-56; was editor of the Chicago Evening Journal, 1856-61; musical critic of the Chicago Tribune, 1862-81. and became editorial writer of the Tribune in 1872. He was war correspondent. 1862-63. He was married, in 1802,

to Sarah E. Bliss, who died in 1876; and secondly, in 1880 to Georgiana S., daughter of James H. and Harriet (Sheldon) Wood of Toledo, Ohio. He organized the Apollo musical club in 1872, and served as its first president. He is the author of: Letters of Peregrine Pickle (1869); TJie Great Fire (1872); Wornan in Music (1880); The Standard Operas, their Plots, their Music and their Com- jiosers (1885); TJie Standard Oratorios (1886); The Standard Cantatas (1887); The Standard Symphonies (1888); The Standard Light Operas and Musical Pastels (1903). He also translated Max Miiller's " Memories, a Story of German Love" (1879), and Nohl's lives of Hayden, Liszt and Wagner (3 vols., 1883-84).

UPTON, Winslow, astronomer, was born in Salem, Mass., Oct. 12, 1853; son of James and Sarah Sophia (Ropes) Upton; grandson of Robert and Lucy (Doyle) Upton and of James and Lucy (Groce) Ropes, and a descendant of John Upton who emigrated to America about 1635, and died in 1699, at Reading, Mass. James Upton (1813- 1879) was a prominent merchant of Salem, and a liberal contributor to Brown university, Newton Theological Institution and the Essex Institute. Winslow was graduated A.B. from Brown in 1875, and A.M., University of Cincinnati, for a graduate course in astronomy in 1877; was assistant at the astronomical observatory, Harvard, 1877-79; assistant engineer, U.S. lake survey, 1879-80; computer at the U.S. Naval observatory, 1880-81, and computer and assistant prof essor of meteorol- ogy in the U.S. signal office, 1881-84. He was married, Feb. 8, 1882, to Cornelia Augusta, daugh- ter of William Henry and Penelope (Andrews) Babcock of Lebanon Springs. N.Y. He was elected professor of astronomy at Brown univer- sity, 1884; and was also made director of the Ladd observatory in 1890, being dean of the faculty, 1900-01. He was a member of the U.S. eclipse expeditions of 1878 and 1883, and of three private eclipse expeditions in 1887, 1889, and 1900, He received a leave of absence from Brown, and was attached to the southern station of the Har- vard observatory at Arequipa, Peru, 1896-97. He was made a member of several foreign and American scientific societies; furnished the as- tronomical calculations of the Proi-K/ence Journal Alma7iac from 1894, and is the autlior of: The Star Atlas, for schools (1896), and of numerous con- triljutions to scientific papers, including: Photo- metric Observations (1879); The Solar Eclipse of 1S7S (1879); Report on Observations made un the Expedition to the Caroline Island, to observe the Total Solar Eclipse of May 6, 1SS3 (1884); An In- vestigation of Cyclonic Phenomena in Neic Eng- land (1887); Meteorological Observations during the Solar Eclipse of Aug. 10. 1SS7 (1888): and 77/e Storm of March, 11-L't, ISSS (1888).