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excavations are required to confirm or deny this postulation.
24. Lee Myers, “Mangas Colorado’s Favorite Am- bush Site,” Old West, Vol. 5 (Winter, 1968), p. 26 (hereafter cited as Myers, “Ambush”).
25. Letters Sent, Fort Cummings, Post Records, Record Group 393, National Archives (Microfilm copyatRioGrandeHistoricalCollection,Roll1), Drescher to Johnson, November 30, 1863 (hereafter
cited as Letters Sent, Roll 1).
26. DreschertoBennett,November4,1863,ibid.
Drescher was still complaining of this problem on January 3, Drescher to Warren.
27. DeLong to Hayden, December 2, 1863, ibid. 28. DeLong to Archer, January 3, 1864, ibid.
29. Myers, “Stepping Stones,” pp. 27-28.
30. For a summary of the Californians’ significant
involvement in the Southwest, see Darlis A. Miller, Tl\e California Column in New Mexico (Albuquer- que: University of New Mexico Press, 1980), passim (hereafter cited as Miller, California Column).
31. Henry Pickering Walker (ed.), “Soldier in the California Column - the Diary of John W. Teal,”
Arizona and the West, Vol. 13 (Spring, 1971), p. 65. 32. Drescher to McCleave, April 21, 1864, Letters
Sent, Roll 1.
33. DeLong to John May, April 21, 1864, ibid.
Four days later, another civilian, William B. Roah- man, was similarly cautioned.
34. Colton, Civil War, p. 135; Utley, Frontiersmen, p. 257.
35. Stanley Crocchiola, The Civil War in New Mexico (Denver: The World Press, Inc., 1960), p. 338. That early in the year the crops could not have been very mature. What is interesting is that the Apaches were doing some subsistence farming.
36. El Paso Times, January 3, 1965, p. 3:1-6; Thomas J. Caperton and LoRheda Fry, Old West Army Cookbook 1865-1900 (Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico, 1974), pp. 3-5 (hereafter cited as
Caperton and Fry, Cookbook).
37. Letters Sent, Roll 1, Drescher to McCleave,
May 22, 1864. This incident probably had nothing to do with Captain Burkett relieving Drescher in July.
38. Myers, “Stepping Stones,” pp. 25, 28.
39. Averam Burton Bender, The March ofEmpire: Frontier Defense in the Southwest, 1848-1860 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1952), pp.
39-40.
40. BLM, Historic Places, Part 7, p. 1. The
photograph of Fort Cummings taken in mid-Oc- tober 1867 by William A. Bell (Figure 45) indicates that one of the rooms flanking the sally port may have had an outside window and that a large entry to the corral also breached the exterior wall.
41. Shaw to Cutler, January 18, February 3, 1865, Letters Sent, Roll 1.
42. DarlisA.Miller,“TheRoleoftheArmyIn- spector in the Southwest: Nelson H. Davis in New Mexico and Arizona, 1863-1873,” New Mexico His- toricalReview,Vol.59(Apr.,1984),p.149(hereafter cited as Miller, “N. H. Davis”); Utley, Frontiersmen, p. 253.
43. Hugh Meglone Milton, II, Fort Selden, Tenitoiy of New Mexico, 1865-1890 (Las Cruces: Privately Published, 1971), pp. 1, 13-15.
44. BurketttoCutler,May27,1865,LettersSent, Roll 1.
45. Wilson, Post Returns, pp. 5-9. During part of this time, Lieutenant John D. Slocum was in com- mand at Fort Cummings.
46. Burkett to Cutler, July 22, 1865, Letters Sent, Roll 1.
47. Wilson, Fort Cummings, p. 8.
48. TheplacenameOakGrovehasbeenlost. Perhaps, due to map ‘variations,’ this was present- day O.K. Canyon.
49. Wilson, Post Returns, p. 8; Myers, Ambush, p. 74. A massive tombstone emplaced later still marks the spot.
50. Elsie M. Dailey, “John Baptiste Salpointe: First Roman Catholic Bishop of Arizona,” Arizonia, Vol. 4 (Spring, 1963), pp. 26-27.
51. Myers, “Stepping Stones,” p. 35. Fort Bayard was named for Brigadier General George Dashiell Bayard who was wounded at Fredericksburg by a shell fragment on December 13, 1862, and died the following day.
52. Leon Claire Metz, Fort Bliss: An Illustrated History (El Paso: Mangan Books, 1981), p. 35 (hereafter cited as Metz, Fort Bliss); Francis B. Heit- man, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United
States Anny, from Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, Vol. 1 (Washington: Govern- ment Printing Office, 1903), pp. 123-124, 134-136. Metz mistakenly asserts that in July 1866 the 124th and 125th Volunteer (Colored) Infantry were changed to the 24th and 25th Infantry, respectively, and that the 109th and 110th Volunteer Colored Cavalry were redesignated the 9th and 10th, respec-
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