biography
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Lander, Frederick West
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| male
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| lived:
| (1821–62)
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| biography:
| Explorer and soldier, born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He studied engineering and led or participated in five transcontinental surveys for transportation routes (1853–60). He was a Union brigadier-general of volunteers (1861–2) and he wrote many patriotic poems during the Civil War. |
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