The Woodruff Gun
Annotations to the Margreiter article.
Lincoln Intervenes.
Executive Mansion
Nov. 8. 1861.
Gen. Ripley
Sir
Please see Gov. Wood and Mr. Woodruff, bearers of this, and make the arrangements for arms which they desire if you possibly can. Do not turn them away lightly; but either provide for their getting the arms, or write me a clear reason why you can not.
Yours truly A. LINCOLN
Lincoln, Abraham, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953. Vol. 5.
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