![]() ![]() ![]() Military Academy’s class of 1858, had arrived in Arizona only some three months earlier. Bascom, who had graduated next to the bottom of the U. Bascom, with a detachment of troopers on a reconnaissance of Ward’s ranch. The next morning, Morrison, a seasoned officer who may have been more concerned about the nation’s emerging Civil War in the east than in Ward’s losses in Arizona, dispatched an inexperienced 24-year-old second lieutenant, George N. Ward blamed the raid, not on the Coyotero Apaches, but on the Chiricahua Apaches, specifically, Cochises band of Chokonens. Ward, some said, seemed more worried about the loss of his livestock than the whereabouts of Mickey Free. Farish in his History of Arizona, reported the raid to the Fort Buchanan commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Pitcain Morrison. Ward, a drunk according to some and "in all respects, a worthless character," according to T. They ran off 20 head of Wards cattle and abducted his Mexican mistress 12-year old red-haired and one-eyed son, Mickey Free. On January 27, 1861, Coyotero Apaches raided John Wards squalid ranch headquarters on Sonoita Creek, some 11 miles southwest of Fort Buchanan, in southeastern Arizonas broken and arid basin and range country. From Peter Nabokov’s book Native American Testimony. I am here! What do they want? They have looked for me long why am I worth so much?Ĭochise, chief of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apaches, statement made during peace talks with General Gordon Granger, 1866. Why was it? Why did they come together? The white people have looked for me long. When God made the world he gave one part to the white man and another to the Apache. ![]()
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