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Amiel Weeks Whipple, a descendant of Matthew Whipple, who came from England to Ipswich, Massachussets, about 1638, was born in Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachussets, the son of David and Abigail (Pepper) Whipple. (The year of his birth is usually given as 1818, but his own statements fix the date approximately as October or November 1816. )
He applied for appointment to the United States Military Academy as early as 1834, when he was teaching in a district school in Concord, Massachussets Unsuccessful at that time, he entered Amherst College, but finally received a cadetship in 1837, under the name, through a curious clerical error, of Aeriel W. Whipple. He graduated in 1841.
He was commissioned second lieutenant of artillery, but was shortly afterward transferred to the topographical engineers, then a separate corps of the army. His early assignments were at Baltimore, Md. , New Orleans, La. , and Portsmouth, N. H. From 1844 to 1849 he was engaged in the survey of the northeastern boundary of the United States, and from 1849 to 1853 in the survey of the boundary between the United States and Mexico.
In commemoration of his services in that part of the country the military post maintained from 1869 to 1884 at Prescott, Ariz. , was called Whipple Barracks. From 1853 to 1856 he was employed in locating the route for a railroad to the Pacific, and from then until the beginning of the Civil War, besides supervision of lighthouses, he worked at the channels through the St. Clair flats and the St. Mary's River, opening the Great Lakes to navigation by larger craft.
He had been promoted first lieutenant in 1851 and captain in 1855. As chief topographical engineer he served at the battle of Bull Run, and continued in that capacity on the staff of Gen. Irvin McDowell until the spring of 1862. He was made major in the regular army in September 1861 and brigadier-general of volunteers in April 1862. From April to September he commanded a brigade, and for the following month a division, in the defenses of Washington. His headquarters were near Arlington, and a fort erected in 1863 on the heights there, within the present Fort Myer reservation, was named Fort Whipple. An exceptionally fine example of fortification of its type, it had a perimeter of 659 yards, and provided emplacements for forty-three guns, behind parapets fifteen feet thick on the exposed fronts.
In October 1862 Whipple was assigned to command the third division of the III (Stoneman's) Corps. This was used in support of Sumner's "grand division" in its attack on the Confederate left at the battle of Fredericksburg in December, but was not heavily engaged. Both Burnside and Hooker recommended Whipple's promotion to major-general in January 1863. The III Corps, now under Sickles, was on the right on the second day (May 3, 1863) of the battle of Chancellorsville, after Jackson had routed the XI Corps. The Confederates attacked that flank repeatedly in an effort to roll up the Union line, and here Whipple was mortally wounded. He was removed to Washington, where he died. His appointment as major-general of volunteers was hastily made out just before his death.
He served as a brigadier general in the American Civil War, where he was mortally wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville. He was the topographical engineer/surveyor in charge of the 1853-1854 Pacific Railroad Survey from Arkansas to Los Angeles in 1853 and 1854, for a potential transcontinental railroad route. His name is memorialized on 2 forts - Fort Whipple, the Arizona Territory's first capital, and Fort Whipple, Arlington County, Virginia, now Fort Myer, - and around northern Arizona: Whipple Street, Whipple Stage, Whipple Mountains, Whipple Mountains Wilderness. Numerous plants taxa were named in his honor, including the genus Whipplea and species Hesperoyucca whipplei.
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On September 12, 1843, he married Eleanor, daughter of John Nathaniel Sherburne of Portsmouth.
