First Battle of Dragoon Springs

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First Battle of Dragoon Springs
Part of the Apache Wars, American Civil War

Dragoon Mountains
DateMay 5, 1862
Location
Dragoon Mountains, New Mexico Territory (USA), Arizona Territory (CSA);
now in Cochise County, Arizona
Result Apache victory
Belligerents
Confederate States Apache
Commanders and leaders
Sergeant Sam Ford  † Cochise
Francisco
Strength
unknown ~100 warriors
Casualties and losses
4 killed unknown

The First Battle of Dragoon Springs was a minor skirmish between a small troop of Confederate dragoons of Governor John R. Baylor's Arizona Rangers, and a band of Apache warriors during the American Civil War. It was fought on May 5, 1862, near the present-day town of Benson, Arizona, in Confederate Arizona.

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