Edmund Burke Whitman
(1812-1883)
American Superintendent of National cemeteries
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Edmund Burke Whitman (October 18, 1812 – September 2, 1883) was a quartermaster during the American Civil War. 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 US. Most of the information was give to him by the African American inhabitants as other populace was generally hostile to his efforts
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18 October 1812 East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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2 September 1883 (aged 70)
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