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Stephen Whipple

United States1 battle1 war

Lifespan

1823 – 1895

1830184018501860187018801890Nez Perce War · 1877Battle of Cottonwood — July 3, 1877 · United States Army · Nez Perce War

Active service 1877 — 1 battle across 1 war; first command at age 54.

Profile

Stephen Girard Whipple was an American 49er, newspaper editor, politician, and a Union officer commanding an all-volunteer Battalion of Mountaineers and the Humboldt Military District in the Bald Hills War against the Indians in northwest California during the American Civil War. After the Civil War, he was an officer in the U. S. Army serving in the Apache Wars and in the Nez Perce War, at various frontier posts.

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Battles (1)

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