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Fort Yuma. Fort Yuma was a fort in California located in Imperial County, across the Colorado River from Yuma, Arizona. It was Established in 1848. It served as a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail route from 1858 until 1861. The fort was retired from active military service on May 16, 1883, and transferred to the Department of the Interior.
Fort Yuma, California, c. 1875 Steamboats on the Colorado River at Yuma, c. 1880 Yuma Crossing in 1886. The railway bridge over the Colorado River was built in 1877. The area's first settlers for thousands of years were Native American cultures and historic tribes.
Yumans along the Colorado River by William Emory, circa 1857. The Yuma War was the name given to a series of United States military operations conducted in southern California and what is today southwestern Arizona from 1850 to 1853. The Quechan (also known as Yuma) were the primary opponent of the United States Army, though engagements were ...
The Fort Yuma Indian Reservation is a part of the Quechan's traditional lands. Established in 1884, the reservation, at 32°47′N 114°39′W / 32.783°N 114.650°W / 32.783; -114.650 , has a land area of 178.197 km 2 (68.802 sq mi) in southeastern Imperial County, California , and western Yuma County, Arizona , near the city of ...
Battle of Picacho Pass. The Battle of Picacho Pass, also known as the Battle of Picacho Peak, was an engagement of the American Civil War on April 15, 1862. The action occurred around Picacho Peak, 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Tucson, Arizona. It was fought between a Union cavalry patrol from California and a party of Confederate pickets from ...
Steamboats of the Colorado River. Yuma and Fort Yuma across the Colorado River (circa 1875 lithograph). [1] Steamboat is downriver from the ferry crossing that is equipped with masts on both banks to raise the ferry's tow cables above the smokestacks of passing steamboats. Note two of the cables holding the mast up are tied to discarded boilers ...
Second Battle of Bull Run. Signature. Samuel Peter Heintzelman (September 30, 1805 – May 1, 1880) was a United States Army general. He served in the Seminole War, the Mexican–American War, the Yuma War and the Cortina Troubles. During the American Civil War he was a prominent figure in the early months of the war rising to the command of a ...
After Fort Yuma and the Yuma Quartermaster Depot closed in the 1880s, the Army did not return to Yuma on a permanent basis until World War II. [5] Yuma Proving Ground traces its history to Camp Laguna and the Army Corps of Engineers Yuma Test Branch, both activated in 1943.