With the nation pausing this week to remember those who served on Veterans Day, it’s important to remember a Western New Yorker and the mark he left on the United States Army. General Emory Upton led ...

FORT McCOY, Wis. -- Several artifacts from the early days of Fort McCoy's history recently were turned over to the installation's History Center. The artifacts most likely are from the 1910 occupation ...

Dr. David Fitzpatrick holds the view that Batavia native and Civil War general Emory Upton is a misunderstood reformer and will bring that view to Batavia next week when he takes part in events at the ...

Genesee County will receive a rare and significant gift in the near future, a collection of letters written by one of Batavia’s most famous native sons, Civil War Union Army General Emory Upton.

The American Army that entered Iraq in 2003 was still Emory Upton’s Army. Focused as it has been on state-versus-state warfare, Upton’s army has not cared much for counterinsurgency, and this was ...

BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — Emory Upton was training at West Point as tensions brewed between the North and South in 1861, but he already was showing the leadership that would elevate him to major general in ...

HAMPTON – Finding a head for Lt. Col. Emory Upton was no easy feat for Claire Seger Samuelson, the new director of Fort Monroe’s Casemate Museum. Upton, a Civil War veteran, ran the Artillery School ...

Some of the heaviest and bloodiest battles of the Civil War raged in Virginia, May 5 to June 3, 1864. This Week in Army History marks the anniversary of several of those battles: the North Anna, May ...

Embattled historian Stephen Ambrose has issued a revised edition of The Wild Blue that purports to give credit where credit is due. He admits to copying "some phrases" and "a few sentences" in some of ...

Thirty years after the Civil War, Dewitt Clinton Beckwith, a veteran of the 121st New York Volunteers (Upton's Regulars) published a history of the regiment in the pages of The Herkimer Democrat a ...