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Amiel Weeks Whipple

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Amiel Weeks Whipple was an American military officer and topographical engineer. He served as a brigadier general in the American Civil War, where he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville.

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A drawing from the Whipple Expedition (1853 to 1854) which shows Whipple with the southwest Indian tribe.A drawing from the Whipple Expedition (1853 to 1854) which shows Whipple with the southwest Indian tribe.

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Amiel Weeks Whipple was an American military officer and topographical engineer. He served as a brigadier general in the American Civil War, where he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Among his many survey assignments for the US War Department, he participated in the difficult survey of the new United States and Mexico boundary and led the survey of a possible transcontinental railroad route along the 35th parallel from Arkansas to Los Angeles.

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United States
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Lived 1817 to 1863 · aged 45
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