at the Battle of Malvern Hill. The citation reads: Later life After the Civil War Ripley returned to his family's business interests, operating the marble company with his brother Edward as Ripley Sons, and serving on the board of directors and as president of the Rutland County National Bank. In 1867 Ripley was elected president of the Reunion Society of Vermont Officers, succeeding George J. Stannard, who had been the organization's first president. He was also active in the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Medal of Honor Legion. In 1889 the Ripleys sold the marble business to the Vermont Marble Company, headed by fellow Civil War veteran Redfield Proctor. A Republican, Ripley was a delegate to the 1868 Republican National Convention. In 1880 he was a presidential elector, and cast his ballot for the Garfield and Arthur ticket. The city of Rutland was organized separately from the town in the late 1800s, and Ripley served as the city's mayor from 1899 to 1900, succeeding Percival W. Clement. Ripley authored a history of his Civil War experiences, 1883's Vermont Riflemen in the War for the Union. Death and burial Ripley died in Rutland on December 16, 1905. He was buried in Rutland's Evergreen Cemetery. Family William Y. W. Ripley was the brother of Edward H. Ripley. E. H. Ripley served in the Civil War as commander of the 9th Vermont Infantry Regiment. As a brevet brigadier general, he commanded brigades in the XVIII and XXIV Corps. He led some of the first troops to enter Richmond following the Lee's retreat, and warned Lincoln of a plot to assassinate him when he visited Virginia during the waning days of the war. Julia Caroline Dorr, the wife of Seneca M. Dorr, was the half-sister of William and Edward Ripley. William Y. W. Ripley was married to Cornelia Ann Thomas Ripley. Their children included: Hastings Warren Ripley (January 30, 1871 – April 24, 1871); Mary Elizabeth Ripley Pease (1857–1936); William Thomas Ripley (1860–1893); Janet Warren Ripley Dorr (1863–1954); Thomas Emerson Ripley (1865–1956); and Charles Edward Ripley (1867–1893). Thomas E. Ripley was the father of author and screenwriter Clements Ripley. William Y. W. Ripley's sister Helen was the mother of John Ripley Myers. The son of Clements Ripley, William Y. W. Ripley (1921–2013), called Warren, was a notable South Carolina newspaper editor