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Maj. Morrow reported the incident on 23 September to headquarters: [First Lieut. Byron] Dawson, [Lieut.] Wright and [Second Lieut. Matthias W.] Day, struck Victoria’s trail at head of Sierra Blanca Canon two days old on sixteenth. Followed it to head of Las Animas River, where on the eighteenth they run upon the Indians who held a strong position. Troops were virtually caught in a trap. Capt. Hooker with his company, and [First Lieut. William H.] Hugo’s came up and took part in the fight. After fighting all day the troops were compelled to withdraw under cover of darkness with a loss of five men killed and one wounded, and thirty-two horses killed and six wounded. I have sent [Second Lieut. Augustus Perry] Blocksom and Gatewood with their Apache scouts, and [Second Lieut. Robert T.] Emmet with his Navajos to the scene of action, and follow immediately myself with all available men of the post. My cavalry will be principally dismounted.... 31 In the fight, Victorio was clearly the winner. The Apaches captured the American supplies, killed two Navaho scouts, a civilian, and five soldiers. Two enlisted men were wounded. Fifty-three government horses or mules were lost. The Army responded by sending Indian Scouts under Lieuts. Gatewood and Blocksom with their scouts, just arrived at Fort Bayard as reinforcements from Arizona, into the field. After several days of combing the Mimbres Mountains, they struck the trail of the hostiles. Gatewood described the action in an article appearing in The Great Divide.” Cutting loose from our pack trains we followed that trail for three nights, each man carrying his rations and equipments. We laid over in the daytime. It rained every minute of the time, and as we dared to build only very small fires to do our cooking by, there was no chance to dry our clothing and the few blankets in the party. The only part of the little we had to eat not spoiled by the rain was the bacon. The second day we found some jerked horse meat and the third an old abandoned government mule. From the time his throat was cut by a scout till a stew of bacon and mule was simmering, very few minutes elapsed. By the fourth day we were far into the Black Range. It had ceased raining. Just before sundown our scouts in advance located Mr. Victorio and his “outfit” encamped in a deep canyon. They saw each other about the same time, and the fun began. The firing, of course, brought up those in rear “double quick.” From the small number of scouts first seen, the hostiles thought themselves already the victors and became quite saucy and facetious, daring them to come closer and even inviting them to supper. My first sergeant, Dick, answered, “We are coming,” and when old Vic’s braves saw forty odd scouts and as many soldiers come tumbling down the side of the canyon into their camp, they stayed not on the order of their going. Darkness aided their flight. Result: two bucks and a squaw on their side; on our side, nothing. They managed to drive their stock away. Early next morning, as we had just finished breakfast, a single shot rang out down the canyon, then a volley, suddenly increasing into more shots and more volleys, with sounds of command, all doubled and trebled in reverberations up the valley, until it was one roar of pandemonium that was enough to set a nervous man wild. I didn’t believe there was a sane man in the country, except the Corporal, who coolly informed me after awhile that I was sitting on the wrong side of a rock and pointed out to me the folly of protecting a rock. 32 Victorio’s Indians had attacked Maj. Morrow’s camp a mile away from where Gatewood was breakfasting. The lieutenant raced his men to the scene. There, several soldiers had been killed and an unknown number of Indians wounded. The hostiles retreated to the safety of the 54 HUACHUCA ILLUSTRATED
mountains, firing at Morrow’s men as they tried to retake their stock from a canyon. Albert Payson Morrow, a sergeant major during the Civil War, received a commission in the 6 th Pennsylvania Cavalry and was wounded at the Dinwiddie Court House in March 1865. He was commissioned a captain in the 7 th Cavalry in 1866, transferred to the 9 th Cavalry in 1867, and toured Europe as an official observer at French Army maneuvers. He was an aide to Gen. William T. Sherman in 1881. In 1883 he rejoined his regiment, the 6 th Cavalry, at Fort Huachuca and assumed command of the post as a lieutenant colonel from July to September 1883. In October he was court-martialed for being drunk on duty and was dismissed from the service, despite a defense that claimed he was suffering from nervous prostration as a result of suffering from the intense pain of his Civil War wound and not getting any sleep. On one occasion for which he was charged with drunkeness, he claimed to be under the influence of morphia prescribed by the Post Surgeon Gardiner. He was eventually promoted to colonel of the 3d Cavalry, retired in 1892, and died in 1911 at Gainesville, Florida. In their circuit, the Apaches ambushed a civilian force from Mesilla on 13 October 1879, killing all eleven men and capturing a women and child, before disappearing into the Florida Mountains. Lieut. Blocksom was reported by the press to have skirmished with them on 22 A MAGAZINE OF THE FORT HUACHUCA MUSEUM 55
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Page 6 and 7: trouble spot. He left Arizona a her
Page 8 and 9: 8 Indians with agent John Clum. Joh
Page 10 and 11: Orlando Bolivar Willcox was in the
Page 12 and 13: 12 Southern Arizona in the Late 70s
Page 14 and 15: 14 Timeline In 1875 the stagecoach
Page 16 and 17: he did not have in mind Hiram Winch
Page 18 and 19: William A. Rafferty was a solid Ind
Page 20 and 21: obtained from a creek running throu
Page 22 and 23: Map: Vicinity of Camp Huachuca, Ari
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Page 26 and 27: 26 Colonel Whitside (seated on the
Page 28 and 29: 28 A true copy of a letter recommen
Page 30 and 31: 30 Col. Samuel Marmaduke Whitside.
Page 32 and 33: 32 Roll Call: The First Wife at Hua
Page 34 and 35: Carlos in 1928 when that place was
Page 36 and 37: 36 other articles, and chase them u
Page 38 and 39: 38 land sufficient for farming and
Page 40 and 41: 40 Others are provided with amulets
Page 42 and 43: 42 Fort Huachuca in 1879. Photo cou
Page 44 and 45: “Fort Huachuca, Arizona, Roll Cal
Page 46 and 47: olt. They may have been further mot
Page 48 and 49: would not be the last time that Cap
Page 50 and 51: Pedro Valley east of Fort Huachuca.
Page 52 and 53: Lieutenant Gatewood with his Apache
Page 56 and 57: October. Major Morrow was on their
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Page 60 and 61: Assistant Acting Surgeon Dorsey McP
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Page 70 and 71: apidly in force. They were vigorous
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Page 80 and 81: Arresting the Apache spiritual lead
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Page 86 and 87: 86 Apache Indian Scouts, with two p
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Page 90 and 91: George A. Forsyth wrote two books a
Page 92 and 93: General Willcox, operating out of F
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Page 100 and 101: strong position, which we again fla
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faucets, and they were held back un
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108 rear probably all in. From the
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110 and in my judgement the circums
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efore, the 28th. Forsyth said Tuppe
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handling of the pursuit. Col. Forsy
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116 behind. This was the worst thin
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118 captured. 92 Wilbur Elliott Wil
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120 5 p.m. when we stopped for supp
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“Camp Huachuca, A.T., As proposed
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124 Apache Campaigns: Big Dry Wash
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126 whatever; except for the trees,
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128 indicated by scattered blankets
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get food and replenish our ammuniti
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132 He was killed on 11 January 188
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134 Tzoe, or “Peaches,” Apache
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136 Mangas, son of Mangas Colorado
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eport for 1884 that “for the firs
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140 Timeline In 1882 Lt. James B. L
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paigns. The American Army had used
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144 Free, Mickey, in Washington, D.
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146 Indian trading stores at San Ca
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148 Department of Arizona General O
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In December 1881 the troop strength
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period and were intended to serve a
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stables of Texas and Arizona are or
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Guard House. Bldg. 22328 (Sam Kee H
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General view of Fort Huachuca Terri
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160 What appears to be the guard mo
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162 1880.15.00.123 Reservoir, Fort
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164 Barracks (Bldg. No. 15). U.S. A
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1884.00.00.012 Photo of officers’
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168 A view of Fort Huachuca in abou
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170 “Police Party,” along Grier
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Dougherty wagon in front of officer
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dispensary, surgeon’s office, two
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176 “Ground Plan, Front Elevation
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178 Troopers’ hangout near Fort H
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180 HUACHUCA ILLUSTRATED
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In 1886 he was the aide to Gen. Joh
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62 Cruse, Thomas, Apache Days and A
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112 113 Sherman, William T., Annual
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