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It was the headquarters of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Arizona National Guard. Ruins of Fort Naco. Camp Naco was home to members of the U.S. Army 9th and 10th Cavalry and 25th Infantry. Fort Huachuca assigned African-American Buffalo Soldier units to its Naco Cantonment or outpost from 1911 to 1924.
Naco is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.Naco had a recorded population of 1,046 at the 2010 United States Census.Located directly across the United States–Mexico border from its sister city of Naco, Sonora, Naco is best known for an accidental 1929 air raid and is the first and only municipality in the Continental United States to have been ...
Location of Cochise County in Arizona. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cochise County, Arizona. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The 158th Infantry Regiment was created September 2, 1865, as the First Arizona Volunteer Infantry. Subsequent to Pancho Villa's murder of American civilians and soldiers in Columbus, New Mexico in 1916, the 1st Arizona Infantry was activated and headquartered at Camp Naco, Arizona and assigned border protection duties.
Pancho Villa's troops attacked General Obregón's garrison on 17 October. During the 119 following days of siege warfare, Villa was defeated. Also during the battle several United States Army Buffalo Soldiers stationed in Naco, Arizona, were wounded by rebels shooting into their camp. Eight soldiers were wounded but they did not return fire and ...
The 1st Battalion was transferred in 1926 to Camp Harry J. Jones, Arizona. The 3rd Battalion was transferred in March 1928 to Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The regiment deployed on 12 March 1929 to Naco, Arizona, to conduct border patrols as a result of the Escobar–Topete Revolution, and remained on border patrols until 10 May 1929. The 1st ...
The Naco garrison was unable to hold out so they retreated and escaped across the border into the Arizona desert to the north. Obregon took control of Naco and Ojeda, with his men, surrendered to the United States Cavalry garrison of Fort Huachuca. The United States cavalry which accepted Ojeda's surrender reported that 213 Yaquis surrender to ...
The Civil War in Arizona: the story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3747-9. pp. 38–39. A history of the First Arizona Volunteer Infantry, 1865–1866 by Lonnie Edward Underhill, The University of Arizona 1979 ; History of Arizona by Thomas Edwin Farish, Arizona Historian. Volume IV Chapters ...