The Woodruff Gun
Annotations to the Margreiter article.
68th ENROLLED MISSOURI MILITIA REBUFFED IN ATTEMPT TO DRAW WOODRUFF AMMUNITION
From the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-Rolla:
Saint Louis, Mo January 26/1863
Genl. John B. Gray
Dispatch received. Will you please request Col. Lindsay to make a regular requisition stating the Regt and state to which he belongs and whether infantry or Artillery. Let him please state what guns he has – their calibre and number and if an unusual calibre whether furnished by the United States or not. If he belongs to the Enrolled Militia of Mo. will you please to request him to send to genl his requisition through his Adj. Genl. of the State.
F. D. Callender
Col. & Chf of Ord
[Note that Col. Callender was the source of one of the Woodruff tubes sent to the West Point Museum.]