Summary:
In this September, 1862, dispatch, Union Ordnance Chief James Ripley orders Colonel G. D. Ramsay to send artillery ammunition via Chambersburg and Hagerstown to The Army of the Potomac for use at the battle of Antietam.

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Col. G. D. RAMSAY,
Washington Arsenal:

Washington,

September 17, 1862

The following dispatch has just been received from Gen. McClellan:

If you possibly can do it, force some 20-pounder Parrott ammunition through to-night, via Hagerstown and Chambersburg, to use near Sharpsburg, Md.

I have called on Col. Rucker for the transportation. Get the ammunition ready and send it to the cars as soon as possible, and let an officer accompany it to its destination.

JAS. W. RIPLEY,
Brig.-Gen. and Chief of Ordnance.

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Bibliographic Information : Letter Reproduced from The War of The Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 1, Volume 51, Serial No. 107, Pages 842, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC, 1997.