Historical Highlights

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Units by company that served at Fort Concho
compiled  from Post Returns

Cavalry

3rd Cavalry Company A    June 1885-Sept 1887

           9th Cavalry Company A     May 1873-Dec 1874
           9th Cavalry Company B     March 1869-July 1870

   4th Cavalry Company A    Dec 1867-March 1868

           9th Cavalry Company C     June 1871-Feb 1872
                                                    Jan 1871-March 1871            9th Cavalry Company D     Feb 1874-Dec 1874
           4th Cavalry Company B     June 1870-May 1871            9th Cavalry Company E     March 1869-June 1870
           4th Cavalry Company C     Aug 1874-April 1875                                                     April 1873-Dec 1874
           4th Cavalry Company D     Dec 1867-Oct 1868            9th Cavalry Company F     Feb 1874-Dec 1874
                                                    May 1872-May 1873            9th Cavalry Company K     March 1874-Dec 1874
           4th Cavalry Company E     July 1870-March 1871            9th Cavalry Company M     July 1872-Oct 1872
                                                    Nov 1874-April 1875
           4th Cavalry Company G     Dec 1867-March 1869           10th Cavalry Company A    May 1873-Jan 1878
                                                    June 1870-March 1873                                                      July 1880-Nov 1880
           4th Cavalry Company H     Dec 1867-March 1869           10th Cavalry Company D    May 1875-July 1882
           4th Cavalry Company I     July 1870-April 1873           10th Cavalry Company E     Aug 1879-March 1885
           4th Cavalry Company K    March 1873-April 1873           10th Cavalry Company F    May 1873-March 1874
           4th Cavalry Company L     Jan 1873-May 1873                                                     April 1875-Aug 1877
           4th Cavalry Company M    Dec 1867-March 1869                                                     April 1878-March 1885
                                                    Aug 1870-Jan 1871           10th Cavalry Company G    Feb 1875-Aug 1876
                                                    July 1880-Nov 1880
           8th Cavalry Company B     Sept 1887-June 1888                                                     June 1881-Dec 1881
           8th Cavalry Company I      Oct 1887-June 1888           10th Cavalry Company I     Jan 1875-Aug 1876
           8th Cavalry Company M    Sept 1887-June 1888                                                     July 1880-Nov 1880
          10th Cavalry Company L    Jan 1875-July 1878
                                                    June 1881-Dec 1881
          10th Cavalry Company M  Feb 1878-July 1882

Infantry

       10th Infantry Company A      June 1874-Sept 1876           24th Infantry Company D     Oct 1876-Aug 1877
          24th Infantry Company E     Aug 1874-March 1875
       11th Infantry Company B      July 1870-Feb 1873           24th Infantry Company F     Nov 1869-June 1870
       11th Infantry Company E      July 1870-June 1874           24th Infantry Company G     July 1880-Dec 1880
       11th Infantry Company H     Aug 1870-April 1877           24th Infantry Company K    Aug 1874-March 1875
                                                     July 1880-Dec 1880
       16th Infantry Company A     Dec 1880-Sept 1886
       16th Infantry Company B     Jan 1881-Feb 1887          25th Infantry Company  G     Aug 1878-Aug 1880
       16th Infantry Company C     Dec 1880-Sept 1887          25th Infantry Company  G     March 1877-Aug 1880
                                                  Sept 1887-May 1888          25th Infantry Company K      Feb 1878-July 1880
       16th Infantry Company F     Dec 1880-Jan 1883
                                                  June 1885-Sept 1887           35th Infantry Company E       July 1868-March 1869
       16th Infantry Company G    Aug 1882-Nov 1882
       16th Infantry Company H    Aug 1882-Feb 1887          38th Infantry Company F        Nov 1869-Dec 1860
       17th Infantry Company H     June 1868-March 1869          41st Infantry Company F        March 1869-Dec 1869
       19th Infantry Company K    May 1888-June 1889

 

A Fort Concho Chronology

1867
Site chosen for new post(November)
First troops arrive. (December)

1868
Post finally named. "Fort Concho" chosen. (March)
Commissary Storehouse built.
Quartermaster Storehouse built.
Hospital construction started.
Benjamin Ficklin establishes Concho Mail Station.

1869
First Buffalo Soldiers arrive. (March)
Hospital occupied although unfinished.
Five officers' quarters built.

1870
Bart DeWitt lays out village of St. Angela.
F.C. Taylor and W.S. Kelly lay out town of Ben Ficklin near Concho Mail Station.
Major Hatch experiments with adobe.
Barracks 1 & 2 finished.
Two more officers' quarters started.

1871
Barracks 3,4,5,& 6 built.
Two more officers' quarters started.
Guardhouse built.

1872
Hospital completed.
Commanding Officers' Quarters completed.
Post Surgeons' Quarters completed.
Indian battle at the North Fork of the Red River. (September 29)
Indian prisoners held in Fort Concho corrals. (October 1872-May 1873)

1873
10th Cavalry arrives at post. (June)

1874
Tom Green County created.
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon. (September 26-28)

1875
10th Cavalry Headquarters moves to Concho.
Construction of Headquarters Building started.
Col. Shafter explores the Staked Plains.

1876
Headquarters Building completed.
Forage House built.

1877
Nolan's Lost Expedition.
Officers' Quarters #7 built.

1878
District of the Pecos established.

1879
Schoolhouse/chapel built.  Last permanent building built.

1880
Victorio Campaign. (April-October)
16th Infantry arrives at Fort Concho. (December)

1881
District of the Pecos abolished.
Two soldiers murdered in San Angelo provoking soldiers' riots.

1882
10th Cavalry headquarters leaves Concho for Fort Davis.
16th Infantry headquarters comes to Fort Concho. (August)
Benficklin floods. (August 23-24)

1885
Last Buffalo Soldiers leave Fort Concho.

1887
16th Infantry headquarters moves to Fort Bliss.

1888
Railroad reaches San Angelo.

1889
Army abandons Fort Concho.

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