First Battle of Adobe Walls

First Battle of Adobe Walls
Part of the American Indian Wars, Apache Wars

Adobe Walls
DateNovember 25, 1864
Location
Hutchinson County, Texas
35°53′37.2588″N 101°9′43.36″W / 35.893683000°N 101.1620444°W / 35.893683000; -101.1620444 (Adobe Walls Battlefield)
Result Inconclusive[1][2]
Belligerents
United States United States Comanche
Kiowa
Plains Apache
Commanders and leaders
United States Kit Carson Dohäsan, Guipago, Satank, Satanta,
Iron Shirt
Strength
335 soldiers
72 Native American Scouts
2 artillery pieces		 <1,400 warriors
Casualties and losses
6 killed
25 wounded		 60 killed and wounded (estimate, only 1 known dead)[3]
Adobe Walls Battlefield is located in Texas
Adobe Walls Battlefield
Adobe Walls Battlefield
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Location within Texas

The First Battle of Adobe Walls took place between the United States Army and Native Americans. The Kiowa, Comanche and Plains Apache (Kiowa Apache) tribes drove from the battlefield a United States column that was responding to attacks on white settlers moving into the Southwest. The battle on November 25, 1864, resulted in light casualties on both sides.[4]

  1. ^ Carter, Harvey Lewis. Dear Old Kit' The Historical Christopher Carson Norman: U of OK Press, 1968, p. 165; Sides, Hampton. Blood and Thunder New York: Doubleday, 2006, p. 378
  2. ^ Kit Carson's Last Fight: The Adobe Walls Campaign of 1864 p.220, 224 (Author makes an argument on the difficulty of clearly defining this battle as a victory either way)
  3. ^ Pettis, p. 42
  4. ^ Trosser, John (2004). Adobe Walls Texas, September 7, 2007.