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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 United States Army Ordnance Department.
Brevet Brigadier General James W. Ripley. James Wolfe Ripley was born on 10 December 1794, one of the very few Army officers of the Civil War era to be born in the eighteenth century. A...
Dec 13, 2023 · James Wolfe Ripley - Firearms Assembly - Bev Fitchett's Guns. Last Updated on Wed, 13 Dec 2023 | Firearms Assembly. Championed the rifled-musket. James Wolfe Ripley spent almost all of his adult life as a soldier.
Commanding Officer's Quarters (Spring 2021) Photo Credit: NPS/Dani Beekman. Quarters 1, or the Commanding Officer’s Quarters, built under the direction of Major James Wolfe Ripley between 1845-1847, replaced the 1820 Superintendent’s Quarters located on what is now the site of the Main Arsenal, Building 13 and was condemned in 1843 ...
Jan 15, 2019 · Gatling’s innovative firearm faced a firmly entrenched roadblock: Brig. Gen. James Wolfe Ripley, Union Army chief of ordnance. Ripley (born in 1794) considered repeating weapons unnecessarily expensive inventions that encouraged ammunition waste, thereby overburdening the Army supply system.
Brigadier General James W. Ripley was born in 1794 and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1814. Although commissioned in Artillery, he was assigned as an Ordnance officer to...
Overview. James Wolfe Ripley. (1794—1870) Quick Reference. (1794–1870) U.S. army officer. Ripley was born in Connecticut and graduated from West Point in 1814 with a commission as a second lieutenant in artillery. When the Civil War began ... From: Ripley, James Wolfe in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military »
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