United States Army officer and Confederate States Army officer
1824 CE
to 1865 CE
William Henry Chase Whiting (March 22, 1824 – March 10, 1865) is an United States Army officer who resigns after 16 years of service in the Army Corps of Engineers to serve in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
He is wounded at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher by a musket ball to his leg, and dies on March 10, 1865 of dysentery that had entered his wounds.