Fort Davis Frontier Post

Fort Davis considered one of the best eamples of a frontier military post in the American Southwest. It remains a vivid reminder of the sigificant role played by the military in the settlement of the wertern frontier. Named after the then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, this image is looking across the ruin of the base commissary toward Officers' Row. Four companies of Buffalo Soldiers (Ninth U.S Cavalary, one of the Army's four segregated African American regiments) were the last to use the base. The base was abandoned in June, 1891.

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Fort Davis considered one of the best eamples of a frontier military post in the American Southwest. It remains a vivid reminder of the sigificant role played by the military in the settlement of the wertern frontier. Named after the then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, this image is looking across the ruin of the base commissary toward Officers' Row. Four companies of Buffalo Soldiers (Ninth U.S Cavalary, one of the Army's four segregated African American regiments) were the last to use the base. The base was abandoned in June, 1891.