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for his action at Tularosa, New Mexico on 7 April 1880. He became a lieutenant colonel in the
3d Cavalry in 1892, and retired in 1893. He died in St. Louis in 1898.
40 Cruse, Thomas, Apache Days and After, Caldwell, Idaho, 1941, pp. 71-6.
41 Ball, Eve, In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache, University of
Arizona Press, Tucson, 1970, pp. 85-6.
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43 Cruse, Thomas, Apache Days and After, Caldwell, Idaho, 1941, p. 82.
44 Beyer, Walter F., and Keydel, Oscar F., comp., Deeds of Valor: How America’s Heroes
Won the Medal of Honor, Volume II, The Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, MI, 1902.
45 Quoted in Thrapp, , Dan L., The Conquest of Apacheria, University of Oklahoma Press,
Norman, 1967, p. 200-1.
46 Quoted in Thrapp, Dan L., Victorio and the Mimbres Apaches, University of Oklahoma
Press, Norman, 1974, p. 287.
47 Quoted in Carroll, John M., The Black Military Experience in the American West, Liveright,
New York, 1971, p. 208.
48 Quoted in Carroll, John M., The Black Military Experience in the American West, Liveright,
New York, 1971, p. 206.
49 Quoted in Carroll, John M., The Black Military Experience in the American West, Liveright,
New York, 1971, p. 207.
50 Thrapp says the American force was comprised of 68 Chiricahuas under Capt. Charles
Parker; 20 black troopers under Lieut. James Maney, Fifteenth Infantry; and Captain George W.
Baylor leading Texas Rangers. , The Conquest of Apacheria, University of Oklahoma Press,
Norman, 1967, p. 208.
51 Ball, Eve, In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache, University of
Arizona Press, Tucson, 1970, p. 102.
52 Betzinez, Jason, with W.S. Nye, I Fought with Geronimo, Harrisburg, Pa., pp. 50-1.
53 Ball, Eve, In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache, University of
Arizona Press, Tucson, 1970, p. 71.
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55 Lekson, Stephen H., Nana’s Raid: Apache Warfare in Southern New Mexico, 1881, Texas
Western Press, El Paso, 1987, pp. 29-30.
56 Nicholas Nolan, an Irishman from Kilkenny, was a sergeant of the 2d Dragoons and 6th
Cavalry during the Civil War in which he was both decorated and wounded. After the war he
became a captain in the 10th Cavalry, befriending Henry O. Flipper, the first black graduate of
West Point. Nolan was kept busy chasing Indians in Texas and came to Arizona in February
1883 to command Fort Huachuca. He died suddenly at Holbrook, Arizona, in October of that
year.
57 Ball, Eve, In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache, University of
Arizona Press, Tucson, 1970, p. 109.
58 Ball, Eve, In the Days of Victorio: Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache, University of
Arizona Press, Tucson, 1970, p. 107.
59 Schieps, Paul J., “William Croft Barnes, Soldier and Citizen of Arizona,” Arizona and the
West, Vol. 2, No. 3, Autumn 1960, p. 210.
60 Barnes, Will C., with Frank C. Lockwood, editor, Reminiscences, 1941, pp. 37-8.
61 Barnes, Will C., with Frank C. Lockwood, editor, Reminiscences, 1941, pp. 39-40.
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