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James Grant Wilson

Union Army general, and publisher (1832–1914)

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Born: 28 April 1832
Died: 1 February 1914
Works: 80

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American editions of Robert Burns's poems
The poetical writings of Fitz-Greene Halleck
The centennial history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York 1785-1885
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Personal recollections of the War of the Rebellion

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The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
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Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
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Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
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SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

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Woodlawn Cemetery

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PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation

· 2018 · cited 33,813x

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Key dates

Born: 28 April 1832
Died: 1 February 1914

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Grant
Family name: Wilson
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Edinburgh
Place of death: New York City
Occupation: biographer
Languages spoken: English language
Conflict: American Civil War
Military branch: Union Army
Image: James Grant Wilson - Brady-Handy.jpg

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P119: Woodlawn Cemetery
P3919: Dictionary of National Biography
P8168: Karolina Gajewska
P1343: New International Encyclopedia
P6886: English language

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Ulysses S. Grant

President of the United States

United States Senate

William Makepeace Thackeray

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United States Army

Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)

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