I just wanted to make sure that people who are not as knowledgeable about the Civil War as you, didn't get a mistaken impression about who the arsenal and its arms and ordnance belonged to. I strenuously try to avoid being one of those annoying types who delight in pointing out errors in punctuation and split infinitives; however, as you and I know from personal experience on this board, there are some posters who, unable to debate a subject on the issues, will jump on any imprecision in language to try to cast doubt on our credibility -- a sort of stealth ad hominem tactic.

While I've got my oar in the water here, I might point out as a matter of interest for anyone who doesn't already know this, that most states had their own state armories -- financed, owned and administered by the state -- not subject to Federal jurisdiction. Even some individual prewar military companies had their own armories -- the Pulaski Artillery of Little Rock and the Washington Artillery of New Orleans, to name a couple.