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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Â© The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military 2001, originally published by Oxford University Press 2001. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Dwight, William (1831–88) Union army officer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts. His controversial career included charges of misconduct for remaining in the rear while his men were engaged in battle. Dwight was also accused of drunkenness and of literally using black soldiers as cannon fodder. He was active in the battles of Williamsburg (1862) and Cedar Creek (1864) and the siege of Port Hudson (1863).

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William Dwight Whitney

William Dwight Whitney 1827-94, American Sanskrit scholar and lexicographer, b. Northampton, Mass. After studying in Germany, Whitney became professor of Sanskrit and of comparative philology at Yale. He was outstanding among American Orientalists and philologists and wrote A Sanskrit Grammar (1879) and Language and the Study of Language (1867). He was also brilliantly successful as editor of The Century Dictionary.

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Wiman, Dwight Deere

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Wiman, Dwight Deere (1895–1951), producer. Born in Moline, Illinois, the heir to a manufacturing fortune, he studied drama under Monty Woolley at Yale. After a brief fling in films, he joined with William A. Brady Jr. to produce such plays as Lucky Sam McCarver (1925), 1926 revivals of Little Eyolf and The Two Orphans, The Road to Rome (1927), and The Little Show (1929). Following the partnership's dissolution he produced, occasionally with associates, such memorable productions as The Vinegar Tree (1930), Gay Divorce (1932), She Loves Me Not (1933), On Your Toes (1936), Babes in Arms (1937), On Borrowed Time (1938), I Married an Angel (1938), Morning's at Seven (1939), By Jupiter (1942), and The Country Girl (1950).

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