# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-h-c-whiting
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:29:56.251Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-h-c-whiting"
name: "William H. C. Whiting"
slug: "william-h-c-whiting"
description: "William Henry Chase Whiting was a United States Army officer who resigned after 16 years of service in the Army Corps of Engineers to serve in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was wounded at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher by a musket ball to his leg, and died in prison camp on March 10, 1865, of dysentery."
tagline: "Confederate States Army general (1824-1865)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Henry_Chase_Whiting.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1824-03-22"
deathDate: "1865-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.017543859649123
  historical:           5.880022666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%E3%83%BBH%E3%83%BBC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0"
    title: "W・H・C・ホワイティング"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._C._Whiting"
    title: "William H. C. Whiting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whiting"
    title: "William Whiting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H.C._Whiting"
    title: "William H.C. Whiting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._C._Whiting"
    title: "William H. C. Whiting"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B8_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B7"
    title: "Уайтинг, Уильям Генри Чейз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump