Second Battle of Dragoon Springs

Second Battle of Dragoon Springs
Part of the American Civil War
Apache Wars

Apache warriors
DateMay 9, 1862
LocationDragoon Mountains, New Mexico Territory (USA), Arizona Territory (CSA);
now in Cochise County, Arizona
Result Confederate States victory
Belligerents
Apache Confederate States of America Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
Cochise
Francisco
unknown
Casualties and losses
5 killed none

The Second Battle of Dragoon Springs was one of two skirmishes involving Apache warriors and Confederate soldiers in Arizona. It was fought during the American Civil War on May 9, 1862 and was a response to the First Battle of Dragoon Springs in which Confederate forces were defeated. Four men were killed in the first skirmish and several heads of livestock were captured. The rebel commander Captain Sherod Hunter, ordered his foraging squad to take back the livestock from Cochise's warriors, during which five Apaches were killed. Confederate casualties were zero.

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