Letter of J. W. Ripley and endorsement of Abraham Lincoln concerning guns [Decimalized .01-.02]

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Collection Details

GLC#: GLC00337
Type: Header Record
Date: 21 October 1861-22 October 1861
Title: Letter of J. W. Ripley and endorsement of Abraham Lincoln concerning guns [Decimalized .01-.02]
Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination: 2 items

Time Period

Primary time period: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Sub-Era: The American Civil War

People

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Subjects

Science and Technology

President

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Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

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

Collection Item

Autograph endorsement signed

[Endorsement by Abraham Lincoln and Winfield Scott]

22 October 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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

Letter of J. W. Ripley and endorsement of Abraham Lincoln concerning guns [Decimalized .01-.02]

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