Amiel Weeks Whipple

Amiel Weeks Whipple
Amiel Weeks Whipple
Born(1817-10-21)October 21, 1817
Greenwich, Massachusetts
DiedMay 7, 1863(1863-05-07) (aged 44)
Washington, D.C.
Place of burial
Proprietors' Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
AllegianceUnited States of America
Union
BranchUnited States Army
Union Army
Service years1841–1863
Rank Major General
ConflictsAmerican Civil War

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 35th parallel from Arkansas to Los Angeles.

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