Edmund Burke Whitman (October 18, 1812 – September 2, 1883) was a quartermaster during the American Civil War.
[1] 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 the information was given to him by the African American inhabitants, as the white populace was often hostile to his efforts.
[2] He was born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, on October 18, 1812, to Alfred Whitman and Betsey Robbins.
[3] Whitman is prominently featured in the 2008 historical book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust.