By Weldon Whipple
Last week we visited the Grand Canyon (south rim) and nearby Sedona, Arizona, primarily to hike. Noting that Prescott is fairly close to Sedona, two of us drove to Prescott in search of Fort Whipple, named for Amiel Weeks Whipple.
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Battery Amiel Whipple on Fort Standish, Lovell’s Island, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Recently Mark Whipple sent an email with two links to pages about locations in Boston Harbor. One of the links describes Battery Amiel Whipple, located on Lovell’s Island. (See Amiel’s page in the Whipple Website for more information about Major General Amiel Weeks Whipple. He died from wounds received May 4, 1873 at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia.)
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Amiel Weeks Whipple, Transcontinental Railroads & Route 66
While checking Facebook on my iPhone, I ran across an article published as part of Arizona’s celebration of its statehood centennial this year: Arizona Centennial: The Making of a State – Whipple blazed route for transcontinental railroad. (Recall that he was mortally wounded during the U.S. Civil War while defending Washington, D.C. If you’ve spent much time on the Whipple Website, you will also know that Fort Myer–now in Arlington Cemetery, Virginia–was named Fort Whipple from the 1860s until 1881, in his honor.)
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