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A MAGAZINE OF THE FORT HUACHUCA MUSEUM Notes 1 Quoted in Utley, Robert M., Frontier Regulars: The United States <strong>Army</strong> and the Indian, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1973, p. 172. 2 Quoted in Thrapp, Dan L., Al Sieber: Chief of Scouts, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1964, pp. 188-9. 3 Corson manuscript in Special Collections, University of Arizona. 4 Kautz, August V., Colonel, Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 19 November 1877, Headquarters Department of Arizona, Prescott, Arizona, August 15, 1877. 5 Document, “Calls at <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Huachuca</strong>,” dated March 25, 1877, signed by S.M. Whitside, Captain, 6th Cavalry, Commanding Post. 6 Reports of Inspection of Posts in The Department of Arizona made by Inspector General Schriver in March, April & May, 1878. 7 Letter, Capt. S.M. Whitside to Assistant Adjutant General, Department of Arizona, 3 September 1878. 8 Arizona Daily Star, 5 July 1879. 9 Biddle, James, Maj., Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1880, Headquarters Department of Arizona, Office Acting Assistant Inspector-General, Whipple Barracks, Prescott, September 10, 1880. 10 Altshuler, Constance, Cavalry Yellow & Infantry Blue: <strong>Army</strong> Officers in Arizona Between 1851 and 1886, The Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, 1991, p. 374. 11Whitside’s Annual Report for 1879, <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Huachuca</strong> Records, looseleaf collection in the <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Huachuca</strong> Museum archives. 12 Ibid. 13 Senate Reports, 45th Congress, 3d session, No. 555, pp. 487-88. 14 Arizona Daily Star, 27 August 1879. 15 Letter, to Adjutant General U.S.A., Washington, D.C., from S.M. Whitside, Captain, 6th Cavalry, Commanding Post, Camp <strong>Huachuca</strong>, A.T., dated April 6, 1878. 16 Tombstone Nugget, December 1880. 17 Julius Wilmot Mason had served with the 2d Cavalry in the Civil War and earned two brevets for his actions. Arriving in Arizona in the spring of 1882 as a major in the 3d Cavalry, he commanded <strong>Fort</strong> <strong>Huachuca</strong> until his death there of apoplexy in December. 18 Thrapp, Dan L., “Dan O’Leary, Arizona Scout: A Vignette,” Arizona and the West, Vol. 7, No., 4, Winter 1965. p. 287. 19 Thrapp, “Dan O’Leary, Arizona Scout: A Vignette,” Arizona and the West, Vol. 7, No., 4, Winter 1965, pp. 295-6. 20 Hinton, Richard J., The Hand-Book to Arizona: Its Resources, History, Towns, Mines, Ruins and Scenery, Arizona Silhouettes, Tucson, 1954, p. 236. 21 August Gabriel Tassin was French born, the descendant of the first French governor of Louisiana. He had a distinguished Civil War record and in 1870 went to France to serve as a colonel in the Franco-Prussian War. In 1872 he returned to the U.S. and enlisted in the Signal Corps. The following year he accepted a commission in the 12th Infantry, serving over the ensuing years at <strong>Fort</strong>s Mojave, Grant, Thomas, and Camp <strong>Huachuca</strong> commanding Indian Scouts. 181
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