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to James Wolfe Ripley
17 August 1861
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Lincoln requests that Brigadier General Ripley, the chief of ordnance, have a gun presented by an unknown Mr. Gallagher examined and tested.
GLC02318
[Commission of James W. Ripley as Captain in the Fourth Regiment of Artillery]
1 June 1826
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Engraved document signed by Adams as president and countersigned by James Barbour as secretary of war. Includes a paper seal. A note on the side signed by "R. Jones" indicated that it was "Registered Vol: 2 page 59" in the attorney general's office...
GLC01492
to James Woodruff
October 21, 1861
Ripley, James Wolfe, 1794-1870
States that Woodruff's proposal to furnish a light three pounder cannon is not advisable and will not be accepted because they already have a lighter field artillery piece in use, the bronze mountain and the prairie howitzer. Written from the...
GLC00337.01
[Endorsement by Abraham Lincoln and Winfield Scott]
22 October 1861
Lincoln requests that Lieutenant General Scott see James Woodruff of the Ordnance Office to consider whether to purchase the guns proposed in the letter from Woodruff to J. W. Ripley in GLC 337.01. Scott signs that he agrees with Brigadier General...
GLC00337.02
to Philip Kearny
14 September 1861
Ripley, Chief of the Ordnance Office, writes to General Kearny (Ripley spells "Kearney"). Reports that 95 Enfield rifles for the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd New Jersey Volunteers were transmitted to the Head Quarters of the Army of the Potomac and were returned...
GLC02850
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