Mescalero

Apaches Attack Freight Wagon

Date: May 5, 1861
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Mescalero Apaches attack a freight wagon, 50 miles west of Fort Stockton. Both teamsters and Indians sustain wounds in the fighting. The wagon team retreats to Balmorhea Station.
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European)
Tribe: Mescalero
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.946101000000
Longitude: -103.732521000000
Citation:

Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008), 171.

Event Type:
Raiding Activity

Three Herders Killed Near Fort Davis

Date: August 15, 1861
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Mescalero Apaches led by Chief Nicola raid the ranch of Manuel Musquiz, six miles southeast of Fort Davis. They kill three of Musquiz’s herders and steal livestock.
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European)
Tribe: Mescalero
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.550114000000
Longitude: -103.806138000000
Citation:

Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 87-88.

Event Type:
Raiding Activity

Apaches Attack Mail Wagon

Date: August 28, 1861
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Mescalero Apaches attack a mail wagon near Devil Ridge, seventy miles west of the Guadalupe Mountains. The teamsters take cover and exchange gunfire with the Indians. They successfully repel the attack, wounding an unknown number of Indians.
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European)
Tribe: Mescalero
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.043025000000
Longitude: -105.267322000000
Citation:

Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008), 174-175

Event Type:
Raiding Activity

Union Soldiers Fight Mescalero Apaches in Trans-Pecos

Date: August 31, 1862
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Union troops led by Lt. Edmond D. Shirland encounter 36 Mescalero Apaches 35 miles west of Fort Davis. A running fight ensues, in which the Union troops kill four Mescaleros and wound around twenty others. Two soldiers die in the fighting.
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European)
Tribe: Mescalero
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.528583000000
Longitude: -98.264942000000
Citation:

Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 100-101.

Event Type:
Unprovoked Attack

Apaches Attack a Mail Train Near Escondido Springs

Date: Late April 1866
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Mescalero Apaches led by chiefs Espejo and Jose Cigarito attack a mail train in the vicinity of Escondido Springs (present-day Tunas Springs). The initial skirmish turns into a two-day siege that ends in an Apache retreat. It is unclear how many died or were wounded in the attack.
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European)
Tribe: Mescalero
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.858500000000
Longitude: -102.558709000000
Citation:

Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008), 231-232

Event Type:
Raiding Activity

Apaches and Navajos Attack Wagon Train at Wild Rose Pass

Date: Early June 1866
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Mescalero and Lipan Apaches attack a 30-man wagon train at Wild Rose Pass. Several Indians are killed in the attack. Over the course of the next several days the Apaches, joined by a number of Navajos, lay siege to the wagon train.
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European)
Tribe: Lipans, Mescalero, Navajos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.714349000000
Longitude: -103.782096000000
Citation:

Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 188.

Event Type:
Raiding Activity

Mescalero Apaches Attack Mail Wagon

Date: July 7, 1866
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Chief Espejo leads dozens of Mescalero Apaches in an attack on a mail wagon in Limpia Canyon, fifteen miles northwest of Fort Davis. Wagon conductor Tom Davis is killed; his companions retreat.
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European)
Tribe: Mescalero
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.777470000000
Longitude: -103.743991000000
Citation:

Gregory F. Michno and Susan J. Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008), 235.

Event Type:
Raiding Activity

Mescalero Apaches Attack Stage Coach near Eagle Spring

Date: December 5, 1867
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
One hundred Mescalero Apaches attack a stage coach in the vicinity of Eagle Spring in Hudspeth County. One U.S. soldier, Pvt. Nathan Johnson, is killed.
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European)
Tribe: Mescalero
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.991795000000
Longitude: -105.108877000000
Citation:

Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 334.

Event Type:
Raiding Activity

Expedition Tracks Apaches to Santiago Mountains

Date: September 14, 1868
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
A combined force of sixty U.S. soldiers and forty-five Mexican-Americans track Lipan and Mescalero Apaches suspected of raiding activity. They find them in the Santiago Mountains, near Marathon. The expedition kills 25 Indians, wounding 25 others.
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European)
Tribe: Lipans, Mescalero
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.007570000000
Longitude: -103.316581000000
Citation:

Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 222.

Event Type:
Reprisal

U.S. Soldiers Fight Mescalero Apaches

Date: January 20, 1870
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
U.S. soldiers led by Capt. Francis S. Dodge track Mescalero Apaches up the Delaware River to Pine Springs, on the eastern edge of the Guadalupe Mountains. Ten Apaches are killed; two soldiers sustain wounds.
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European)
Tribe: Mescalero
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.893650000000
Longitude: -104.797640000000
Citation:

Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 241.

Event Type:
Reprisal