Apache Campaigns - Fort Huachuca - U.S. Army

In 1886 he was the aide to Gen. John M. Schofield. He died at the Colorado River Reservation
while serving as acting Indian agent in 1893.
22 Tassin, A. G., “Reminiscences of Indian Scouting,” Overland Monthly, Vol. XIV, Second
Series, July-Dec 1889, San Francisco, August, pp. 151-69.
23 On 22 November 1877, the Arizona Weekly Star wryly commented that if Lieut. Hannah
“married a girl named Hannah, she would be Hannah Hannah both front & backwords.” They
had to misspell his name to achieve this palindrome.
24 Report of Lieut. Hanna, dated September 1877, Fort Huachuca Records, looseleaf collection
in the Fort Huachuca Museum archives.
25 Winners of the West, 1923-1942, newspapers in the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson.
26 Thrapp, Dan L., Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman,
1974, p. 194.
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28 Ball, Eve, In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache, University of
Arizona Press, Tucson, 1970, pp. 71-6.
29 Matthias Walter Day graduated from the academy in 1877 and was assigned to the 10th
Cavalry in Texas. He earned the Medal of Honor at Las Animas Canyon on 18 September 1879
for rescuing a wounded soldier, carrying the man down the trail on his back under heavy fire. In
1885 and 1886 he participated in the Geronimo campaign, went to the Philippines in 1901,
commanded Santa Clara, Cuba, in 1907. He became a colonel of cavalry in 1911 and retired in
1912. He died in Los Angeles in 1927.
30 Quoted in Thrapp, Dan L., The Conquest of Apacheria, University of Oklahoma Press,
Norman, 1967, p. 184.
31 Quoted in Thrapp, Dan L., Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches, University of Oklahoma
Press, Norman, 1974, p. 239.
32 Gatewood, Charles A., “Campaign Against Victorio in 1879,” The Great Divide, April
1894, pp. 102-104.
33 Quoted in Thrapp, Dan L., The Conquest of Apacheria, University of Oklahoma Press,
Norman, 1967, p. 184-9.
34 Quoted in Thrapp, Dan L., The Conquest of Apacheria, University of Oklahoma Press,
Norman, 1967, p. 192.
35 Quoted in Thrapp, Dan L., The Conquest of Apacheria, University of Oklahoma Press,
Norman, 1967, p. 193.
36 Ace Daklugie confirms this in an interview with Eve Ball. He said, “We believe that those
killed in darkness must walk in darkness through eternity in our Happy Place.” See Ball, “Juh’s
Stronghold in Mexico,” The Journal of Arizona History, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 1974, pp. 79-80.
37 Cruse, Thomas, Apache Days and After, Caldwell, Idaho, 1941, pp. 55-6.
38 McPherson, Dorsey M., “Letters of a Tenderfoot in Arizona: Written to His Fiancee More
Than Fifty Years Ago: Recital of Experiences in the Far Southwest During the Early Campaigns
Against Hostile Indians,” compiled in the Spring of 1933, typescript in Fort Huachuca Museum
files.
39 Curwen Boyd McLellan was Scottish born and enlisted in the 1st Dragoons in 1849, serving
as a first sergeant at Fort Tejon, California. He accepted a commission in the 3d Cavalry in 1861
and was wounded at Williamsburg on 4 May 1862. He was breveted for this and other actions at
Gettysburg and Dinwiddie Courthouse. After the war with the 10th Cavalry, he was commended
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