Apache Campaigns - Fort Huachuca - U.S. Army

B Company of Indian Scouts with Mickey Free standing in the center.
Free, Mickey, wearing his first sergeant’s blouse.
Leading his five pack trains were Misters Monach, Hopkins, Stanfield, “Long Jim Cook,”
and “Short Jim Cook.” The train was carrying enough rations for sixty days and an extra 160
rounds of ammunition on 350 mules. Their Apache guide Tzoe, or Peaches as he was called by
the American soldiers, was a recent defector from Chato’s raiding party and he knew well the
mountainous byways of the Sierra Madre. Apaches would remember that Tzoe was henceforth
called “Yellow Wolf” for his defection to the Americans. Each man carried only the clothes on
his back, a blanket, and forty rounds of ammunition. At his back, guarding the border for any
Indians he might flush northward was Col. Carr with troops from the Third and Sixth Cavalry.
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