3rd Cavalry Regiment

Affairs went on in this unsatisfactory course from October 1882 until March 1883, everybody in Arizona expecting a return of the dreaded Chiricahuas, but no one knowing where the first attack should be made.

The meager military force allotted to the department was distributed so as to cover as many exposed points as possible, one body of 150 Apache scouts under Captain Emma Crawford, 3rd Cavalry, being assigned to the arduous duty of patrolling the Mexican boundary for a distance of 200 miles through a rugged country pierced with ravines and canyons.

No one was surprised to learn that toward the end of March this skeleton line had been stealthily penetrated by a bold band of 26 Chiricahuas under a very crafty and daring young chief named Chato, Spanish for flat nose.

By stealing fresh horses from every ranch they were successful in traversing from 75 to 100 miles a day, killing and destroying all in their path, the culminating point of their bloody career being the butchery of Judge McComas and wife, prominent and refined couple of Silver City, New Mexico, and the abduction of their bright boy Charlie, whom the Indians carried back with them on their retreat through New Mexico and Chihuahua.

Commissioned out of Stephen F. Austin in Texas.

Did my platoon leader time over in 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood, Texas.

Did my command time, my company command time in 5-7 Cav out of Fort Stewart with 3rd ID.

And then... after that took my family i did three deployments throughout that time to the sinai to the regionally aligned forces over in europe and eastern europe and then over into korea after that i did some time as a observer controller out at fort irwin and that's when i decided to uh for the um health of my family v-tip over to functional area where you do simulations work so now i work for transformation training command uh within the army and i do experimentation on modernization uh and future efforts for the army both technology and formational design

Affairs went on in this unsatisfactory course from October 1882 until March 1883, everybody in Arizona expecting a return of the dreaded Chiricahuas, but no one knowing where the first attack should be made.

The meager military force allotted to the department was distributed so as to cover as many exposed points as possible, one body of 150 Apache scouts under Captain Emma Crawford, 3rd Cavalry, being assigned to the arduous duty of patrolling the Mexican boundary for a distance of 200 miles through a rugged country pierced with ravines and canyons.

No one was surprised to learn that toward the end of March this skeleton line had been stealthily penetrated by a bold band of 26 Chiricahuas under a very crafty and daring young chief named Chato, Spanish for flat nose.

By stealing fresh horses from every ranch they were successful in traversing from 75 to 100 miles a day, killing and destroying all in their path, the culminating point of their bloody career being the butchery of Judge McComas and wife, prominent and refined couple of Silver City, New Mexico, and the abduction of their bright boy Charlie, whom the Indians carried back with them on their retreat through New Mexico and Chihuahua.

On Tuesday, May 1, 1883, the expedition crossed the boundary into Mexico.

Its exact composition was as follows.

General George Crook in command, Captain John G. Burke, 3rd Cavalry, Acting Adjutant General, Lieutenant G. S. Febiger, Engineer Officer, Aide-de-Camp, Captain Chaffee, 6th Cavalry, with Lieutenants West and Forsyth and forty-two enlisted men of I Company of that regiment, Dr. Andrews, Private A. F. Harmer of the General Service, and a hundred and ninety-three Indian scouts under Captain Emmett Crawford, 3rd Cavalry, Lieutenant Mackey, 3rd Cavalry, and Gatewood, 6th Cavalry, with whom were Alzyber, McIntosh, Mickey Free, Severiano, and Sam Bowman as interpreters.

The pack mules, for purposes of efficient management, were divided into five trains, each with its complement of skilled packers.

He served during this period in several expeditions, and was conspicuous for gallant conduct in the Indian combat at Red Willow and Birdwood Creeks, and also for successful services as chief scout and guide of the Buffalo Hunt, which was arranged by General Sheridan for the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia.

Cody was then assigned to duty with the 3rd Cavalry, and served with that regiment until the fall of 1872, when he was elected a member of the Nebraska Legislature, and thus acquired the title of Honorable.

At the beginning of the Sioux War in 1876, he hastened to Cheyenne, Wyoming, joined the 5th Cavalry, which had recently returned from Arizona, and was engaged in the affair at Warbonnet, Indian Creek, Wyoming.

He then accompanied the 5th Cavalry to Goose Creek, Montana, and served with the Bighorn and Yellowstone Expedition until September.

He served during this period in several expeditions, and was conspicuous for gallant conduct in the Indian combat at Red Willow and Birdwood Creeks, and also for successful services as chief scout and guide of the Buffalo Hunt, which was arranged by General Sheridan for the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia.

Cody was then assigned to duty with the 3rd Cavalry, and served with that regiment until the fall of 1872, when he was elected a member of the Nebraska Legislature, and thus acquired the title of Honorable.

At the beginning of the Sioux War in 1876, he hastened to Cheyenne, Wyoming, joined the Fifth Cavalry, which had recently returned from Arizona, and was engaged in the affair at Warbonnet, Indian Creek, Wyoming.

He then accompanied the Fifth Cavalry to Goose Creek, Montana, and served with the Bighorn and Yellowstone Expedition until September.

What about all this money? What'd we do with that?

The colonel in command of the 3rd Cavalry at Nogales will sign for it and escort it back to San Francisco.

All right.

We'll turn the money over to him and start back.