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GEN. AMIEL WEEKS WHIPPLE |
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General
Amiel Weeks Whipple was a military engineer, soldier and explorer. He mapped and
surveyed rivers and harbors in the U.S., explored a southern railroad route through
Arizona to California, and fought (and died) in the U.S. Civil War, where he had charge of
the defense of Washington, D.C., from the southern side.
- Shelburne, John P., and Gordon, Mary McDougall. Through Indian Country to
California : John P. Sherburne's Diary of the Whipple Expedition, 1853-1854. --
Stanford : Stanford University Press, 1988.
- Listed in the
Amazon.com Bookstore.
ISBN: 0804714479
Chronicle of General Whipple's exploration of a railroad route through the southwestern
U.S. to California.
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- Furgurson, Ernest B. Chancellorsville 1863 : The Souls of the Brave.
--Vintage Books, 1993.
- Listed in the
Amazon.com Bookstore.
ISBN: 0679728317
General Whipple died at the Battle of Chancellorsville from a wound in the belt buckle. He
"was uniquely distinguished as one of only a few (and perhaps the first) General
Officers killed in combat." --Ed Easton (edeaston@erols.com).
Find out why the battle of Chancellorsville "has obsessed military historians for 130
years and posed one of the great riddles of the Civil War."
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