What the records say
- When
- 5 May 1862
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 32.00° N, 110.02° W
- Description
- part of the Apache Wars (1862)
First Battle of Dragoon Springs
Part of the Apache Wars (1862)
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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