Amiel Weeks Whipple, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Amiel Weeks Whipple

Union Army General

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1817

Place of Birth: Greenwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 07-May-1863

Profession: military officer, explorer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Amiel Weeks Whipple (October 21, 1817 – May 7, 1863) 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 thirty-fifth parallel from Arkansas to Los Angeles.