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later moved to Silver City and then to Las Cruces where Sam died nearly 40 years later.
77. Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959), pp. 246-247. Price returned to Missouri in 1866.
78. Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr., William Sanders Oury: History-Maker of the Southwest (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1967), pp. 171-172.
79. Henry Labbeus Oak, History of Arizona and New Mexico 1530-1888, Vol. 17 of The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (San Francisco: The History Company, Publishers, 1889), p. 552; Thomas W. Dunlay, Wolves for the Blue Soldier: Indian Scouts and Auxiliaries with the United States Army, 1860- 1890 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982), p. 74.
80. Foutts to DeForrest, November 24, 1866,
January 10, 1867, Letters Sent Roll 1. ,
81. Foutts to DeForrest, May 20, 1867, ibid.
82. Randy Steffen, The Frontier, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, 1851-1880, Vol. 2 of The Horse Soldier: 1776-1943 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979), p. 95; Foutts to Corbett,
June 1, 1867, Letters Sent, Roll 1.
83. Eve Ball, Nora Henn, and Lynda Sanchez,
Indeh: An Apache Odyssey (Salt Lake: Brigham Young University Press, 1980), pp. 95-97.
84. Henry James, “Route of the Overland Mail,” New Mexico, Vol. 45 (Oct., 1967), p. 29.
85. Virginia Measday and George Pete Measday (eds.),HistoryofLunaCounty,NewMexico-Supple- ment 1 (Deming: The Luna County Historical Society, Inc., 1982), p. 3 (hereafter cited as Measday and Measday, Luna County).
86. Wilson, Post Returns, p. 17.
87. Referring to William Thornton Parker, Annals of Old Fort Cummings New Mexico 1867-1868 (Fort Davis: Frontier Book Company, 1968).
88. Foutts to Corbett, August 21, 1867, Letters Sent, Roll 1.
89. Foutts to Corbett, August 26, September 9, 1867, ibid.
90. Karen Current, “Dr. William A. Bell (1841- 1921),” Photography and the Old West (New York: Abradale Press/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in associa- tion with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1986), p. 48.
Pacific Ocean During 1867-8 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1869), pp. 10-14. From his record, it would seem that Bell was more interested in sampling the wine and brandy along the Rio Grande Valley than in the route for the railroad. His descriptions add significantly, however, to Southwestern data and the character of its citizens.
92. Wilson, Post Returns, p. 17.
93. Miller, California Column, p. 132; Foutts to Merriam, November 13, 1867, Letters Sent, Roll 1. Both men were probably working for J. F. Bennett.
94. MeasdayandMeasday,LunaCounty,pp.2-3.
95. Timothy Cohrs, Fort Selden, New Mexico (Santa Fe: State Monuments Division, Museum of New Mexico, 1974), p. 12 (hereafter cited as Cohrs,
Fort Selden).
96. Until1878eachcompanywasauthorizedfour
laundresses who received wages and military rations.
97. Harrington remains unidentified. Perhaps he was the station agent for the stage company.
98. FrankMcNitt(ab.),OfficeoftheJudgeAdvo- cate, Registers of Court-Martial Cases, 1809-1890, Record Group 153, National Archives, Las Cruces BLM,FortCummingsFile,pp.1-17. Foroneofthe better analyses of this incident, see Lee Myers, “Mutiny at Fort Cummings,” New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 46 (Oct., 1971), passim.
99. Wilson, Post Returns, p. 18.
100. Ibid., pp. 19-20.
101. Wilson, Fort Cummings, p. 8.
102. Wilson, Post Returns, p. 21; Myers, “Stepping
Stones,” pp. 30-31; Leggett to Sweet, March 5, 1868, Letters Sent, Roll 1; Sandra L. Myres (ed.), Ho for California (San Marino: Huntington Library, 1980), p. 281 (hereafter cited as Myres, Ho).
103. Myers, “Stepping Stones,” p. 38; In Mills, Forty Years, p. 195, the date was set at the 18th.
104. Thompson,TheArmy,pp.160-165.
105. MooretoAdjutantGeneral,NewMexico, September 4, 23, 1868, Letters Sent, Roll 1; Cohrs, Fort Selden, p. 12.
106. HenryJackson,ReporttoOfficeofChief Engineer, April 12, 1870, Las Cruces BLM, Fort Cummings file. There was no indication of how deep the 16 posts were buried.
Endnotes
76. Charles Leland Sonnichsen, Roy Bean, Law 91. William Abraham Bell, New Tracks in North WestofthePecos(OldGreenwich,Connecticut:The America: AJournalofTravelandAdventureWhilst Devin-AdairCompany,1943),pp.45-46.TheBeans EngagedintheSurveyforaSouthernRailroadtothe
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107. Cohrs, Fort Selden, p. 12; Moore to AAG,