About Ripley A. Arnold
Lived 1817 – 1853 (aged 35–36). Ripley A. Arnold was a military personnel.
Early life Arnold was born in Pearlington, Mississippi, on January 17, 1817, to Willis Arnold.
Army life He was appointed to West Point in 1834 and graduated thirty-third in his class. He was sent to the Second Dragoons in Florida in 1838 and brevetted captain in 1842 for gallantry in the Seminole War and major in 1846 for his role in the battle of Palo Alto. He was buried at Fort Graham, and was reinterred and reburied in Fort Worth at Pioneers Rest Cemetery.
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Who was Ripley A. Arnold?
(1817-1853)
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Ripley A. Arnold was born in 1817 in Pearlington.
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Ripley A. Arnold died in 1853.
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Ripley A. Arnold was a military personnel.
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