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Brigadier General Charles B. Wheeler

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Brigadier General Charles B. Wheeler
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Charles B. Wheeler (1865 - ) Brigadier General, Chief of Ordnance during World War I. TLS. 1 page. February 9, 1917. On imprinted Watertown Arsenal letterhead. To Colonel Alston Hamilton, “I was very much surprised to see orders in the Boston papers detaching you from duty with the Ordnance Board, and I am just sending you a line to tell you how much I regret that the Department is to be deprived of your services, which have been at all times so valuable and so freely given. I also regret very much that your detachment from the Proving Ground will probably prevent your coming here to Watertown and observing what we are doing in the way of gun carriages and armor piercing projectiles. I shall trust, however, that the “fortunes of war” will at some future time bring you up in this direction, and that then I shall have the pleasure of showing off this little plant. Very sincerely, C. B. Wheeler”. Folds. Fine.