James Wolfe Ripley

Birth Date

1794-12-10

Death Date

1870-03-15

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Connecticut soldier. Windham County, Connecticut native. Attended United States Military Academy in West Pont, New York. Served in the 1st Artillery Corps (U.S.A.) as 2nd lieutenant, 1st lieutenant, and battalion quarter master from June 1, 1814, to June 1, 1821. Served in the 4th Artillery Corps as captain from June 1, 1821, to May 30, 1832. Served in the Army Ordnance as captain and major from May 30, 1832, to April 16, 1841. Appointed Superintendent of United States Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, on April 16, 1841. Promoted to lieutenant colonel on December 31, 1854. Chief of ordnance from April 23, 1861, to September 15, 1863. Brevetted brigadier general on July 2, 1861, and major general on March 13, 1865.

Ezra J. Warner Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002), 404-05. Francis B. Heitman, ed., Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903), 832. George W. Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., vol. 1, 3rd ed. (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1891), 120-23.

Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.

Suggest a correction