Apache Campaigns - Fort Huachuca - U.S. Army

Stephen Crosby Mills graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1877 and came to Arizona
to join the 12 th Infantry, where he spent most of his time in the field with his Indian Scouts. He
was brevetted for gallantry against hostiles in the San Andreas Mountains, New Mexico, in
April 1880, and again in the Las Animas Mountains during April 1882. He was in charge of
the Chiricahua Apaches during their captivity in Florida, and later, from 1890-91, served as
military attache at Copenhagen. He later served as an Inspector General, and as a colonel on
the new General Staff in 1907. His first wife was the daughter of Orlando B. Willcox, departmental
commander in Arizona.
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