Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
After the war he was Superintendent of National Cemeteries where he developed the principles for the selection of new United States National Cemetery sites in April 1869. His principles specified that a site should be of historical interest, and it should have convenient access for visitors. He and his team of United States Colored Troops (USCT) located more than 100,000 bodies of Union Veterans in Southern United States. Most of the information was give to him by the African American inhabitants as other populace was generally hostile to his efforts
He was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts on October 18, 1812 to Alfred Whitman and Betsey Robbins.
He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1838.
They had four children: Amelia Whitman (1840–?), Alfred Whitman (1841–?), Russell Whitman (1844–?), and James Whitman (1847–?). Nancy died around 1854 or 1855.
In 1855 the family moved to Lawrence, Kansas. They had a son: Edmund Whitman (c 1860–?).
In 1877 the family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He died on September 2, 1883 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.