Edmund Burke Whitman
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Edmund Burke Whitman
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Edmund Burke Whitman 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 fallen in the Southern U.S. Most of th
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American Superintendent of National Cemeteries
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke_Whitman
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2023-10-24T19:17:53Z
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