James Wolfe Ripley
(1794-1870)
Union Army general
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James Wolfe Ripley (December 10, 1794 – March 16, 1870) was an American soldier who served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the Civil War. In 1861, he was selected to be the 5th Chief of Ordnance for the U.S. Army Ordnance Department. He was instrumental in the early days of the war in modernizing the artillery's ordnance. However, Ripley also delayed the introduction of repeating firearms, particularly the Gatling gun and the Spencer rifle, into U.S. arsenals, an act that has been widely criticized by later historians.
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10 December 1794 Windham County, Connecticut
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16 March 1870 (aged 75) Hartford, Connecticut
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| Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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