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A New Communication System and an End to Fort Cummings
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mantlement of the communication system.
Despite Miles’ expectations, only one documented case was located where heliograph crews were responsible for setting up a strike against the hostile Indians. On June 5, 1886, the station at Antelope Springs, Arizona, relayed information to Fort Huachuca, in southern Arizona, and the dispatch was forwarded to Captain Henry Ware Lawton at Calabasas. He sent several detachments of Fourth Cavalry troopers out in pursuit of the Apaches, and
Second Lieutenant Robert Douglas Walsh and his men surprised the raiders and captured their horses and equipment.
However, the effectiveness of the heliograph sys- tem was not measured in its direct application to spotting and intercepting the Apaches. The stations provided a barrier through which the Indians could not safely pass in daylight, and they preferred not to travel at night. Further, the use of the monitoring stations relieved the military from having men tied
1. Stein’s Peak
2. Camp Henely
3. Hachita Mining Camp 4. Deming
5. Lockhart’s Well
6. Fort Cummings
7. Lake Valley
8. Hillsboro
9. Fort Bayard
Figure 59. Heliograph stations - 1886.
10. Pinos Altos 11. White House 12. Siggen’s Ranch 13. Lyda Springs 14. Alma
15. Bowie Station 16. Fort Bowie
17. Bowie Peak 18. White’s Ranch
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19. Camp Rucker
20. Swisshelm Mountains 21. Bisbee
22. Antelope Springs
23. Cochise Stronghold 24. Fort Huachuca
25. Baldy Peak
26. Crittenden
27. Tubac