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Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1817-1863

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Personal name headingWhipple, Amiel Weeks, 1817-1863
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Variant(s)Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1818-1863
Birth date1817-10-21
Death date1863-05-07
Place of birthGreenwich (Mass. : Town)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
Field of activityTopographical surveying
Profession or occupationArmed Forces--Officers
Found inSherburne, J. P. Through Indian country to Calif., 1988: CIP ed. introd. (Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple; officer of Corps of Topographical Eng.)
LC data base, 2-5-88 (hdg.: Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1818-1863) man. auth. cd. (hdg.: Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1818-1863; b. 1818; b. 1817)
NUCMC data from Oklahoma Hist. Soc. for His Papers, 1849-1890 (Amiel Weeks Whipple, b. Oct. 21, 1817; d. May 7, 1863; army officer and topographical engineer)
Saifakis, S. WW in Civil War, 1986 (Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1816-1863)
Encyc. frontier bio., 1988 (Whipple, Amiel Weeks, army officer; Oct. 21, 1817-May 7, 1863)
DAB, 1936 (Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1816-May 7, 1863)
WWWA, 1607-1896 (Whipple, Amiel Weeks, topg. engr., army officer; b. Greenwich, Mass., 1816; s. David and Abigail (Pepper) W.; grad. U.S. Mil. Acad., 1841; surveyed boundary between Mexico and U.S., 1849-53; wounded at Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863; d. Wash., D.C., May 7, 1863)
Bio. and gen., 1985 (Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1816-1863; 1818-1863)
Wikipedia, July 1, 2019 (Amiel Weeks Whipple; born October 21, 1817 in Greenwich, Massachusetts; died May 7, 1863 in Washington, D.C.; 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)