Apache Campaigns - Fort Huachuca - U.S. Army

dispensary, surgeon’s office, two wards, two bathrooms, two washrooms, four rooms, and an
isolation ward and storeroom. An addition to the kitchen was completed in 1914. Records in
1905 show $29,398.24 expended by that date. These were the facilities to which Assistant
Surgeon Leonard Wood was assigned when he served at Fort Huachuca in 1886, though much
of his time was spent in Mexico on the famous Geronimo chase. The building was used as a
hospital until a station hospital was built in the cantonment area in 1941, during the early days
of World War II. The old hospital became available for other purposes. During 1951-54, this
was the civilian personnel office, and from 1954 to 1961, the finance office of the Army. For
several years prior to 1967 it was used as the religious education center for the post. In 1967
the building again housed the post comptroller activities and has been known ever since that
time as the finance office.
Barracks at Fort Huachuca around 1898. Photo courtesy Colonel Charles Ezra Stodter who
served at Huachuca as a lieutenant in 1898.
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