Ordnance Department U.S. Army

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1812-05-14

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"Ordnance Department U.S. Army" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00012696, (accessed April 28, 2024).

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Agency of the War Department responsible for supplying the United States Army with military stores. Commander(s): John Wolfe Ripley (April 23, 1861, to September 15, 1863), G. D. Ramsay (September 15, 1863, to September 12, 1864), A. B. Dyer (September 12, 1864, to May 20, 1874).

"Ordnance Department," The Army of the US Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief, https://history.army.mil/books/R&H/R&H-OD.htm, (accessed May 19, 2020).
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), 44.

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