James Ripley was born in Wiscasset, Maine, about June 1819 (from age at death), and, together with his parents and siblings, was among the earliest settlers of Waite. A farmer and lumberman, he was 5'9", with blue eyes, fair complexion, brown hair and 42 years old when he enlisted from Waite Township, 26 Feb 1864, in the Union Army. He was mustered in 4 Mar 1864 at Belfast as a private in "D" Co., 1st Regiment, Maine Cavalry, one of the hardest fighting units of the Civil War and one of the regiments that blocked off Lee at Appomattox at the war's end. James was wounded 18 Aug 1864 in a cavalry charge at Malvern Hill, during the Battle of Deep Bottom II, sometimes called Fussell's Mill. He was hit in the right ankle by a piece of shell, which caused him to fall off his horse. In the fall, he was severely injured when the cock of his carbine was jammed into his thigh above the left knee. He spent the remaining months of the war at Carver Hospital, Ward 48, Washington, DC, and was discharged 20 Jun 1865; died of "complications of war wound" at Waite, 3 Dec 1880, and is buried in the Waite-Talmadge Cemetery; married at Waite, 9 Nov 1843, Julia Ann Fisher.
James Ripley was born in Wiscasset, Maine, about June 1819 (from age at death), and, together with his parents and siblings, was among the earliest settlers of Waite. A farmer and lumberman, he was 5'9", with blue eyes, fair complexion, brown hair and 42 years old when he enlisted from Waite Township, 26 Feb 1864, in the Union Army. He was mustered in 4 Mar 1864 at Belfast as a private in "D" Co., 1st Regiment, Maine Cavalry, one of the hardest fighting units of the Civil War and one of the regiments that blocked off Lee at Appomattox at the war's end. James was wounded 18 Aug 1864 in a cavalry charge at Malvern Hill, during the Battle of Deep Bottom II, sometimes called Fussell's Mill. He was hit in the right ankle by a piece of shell, which caused him to fall off his horse. In the fall, he was severely injured when the cock of his carbine was jammed into his thigh above the left knee. He spent the remaining months of the war at Carver Hospital, Ward 48, Washington, DC, and was discharged 20 Jun 1865; died of "complications of war wound" at Waite, 3 Dec 1880, and is buried in the Waite-Talmadge Cemetery; married at Waite, 9 Nov 1843, Julia Ann Fisher.
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