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First Battle of Dragoon Springs

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

Dragoon Mountains
DateMay 5, 1862
Location
Result Apache victory
Belligerents
Confederate States of America Confederate States Apache
Commanders and leaders
Confederate States of America Sergeant Sam Ford   Cochise
Francisco
Strength
unknown ~100 warriors
Casualties and losses
4 killed unknown

31°59′51″N 110°01′21″W / 31.997613°N 110.022508°W / 31.997613; -110.022508

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.