National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

Officer Rank: Private

Memorial Panel: 3-W: 27

Department: Texas Rangers, Texas

End of Watch: February 4, 1860

Cause: SHOT

Age: 22

Years of Service: 2

Description: Private Woodruff was mortally wounded as Army troops and Rangers attempted to stop a raid. The Rangers and Army troops became engaged in an exchange of gunfire with Cortina and his band of outlaws who were attempting to capture the steamboat, Ranchero. This incident was a part of a series of events that became known as the Cortina War.