James Wolfe Ripley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Union Army general
Date of Birth: 10-Dec-1794
Place of Birth: Windham County, Connecticut, United States
Date of Death: 16-Mar-1870
Profession: military officer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About James Wolfe Ripley
- 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 U.S.
- Army Ordnance Department.
- He was instrumental in the early days of the war in modernizing the artillery's ordnance.
- However, Ripley also delayed the introduction of repeating firearms, particularly the Gatling gun and the Spencer rifle, into U.S.
- arsenals, an act that has been widely criticized by later historians.
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