| Battle of Stanwix Station | |||||||
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| Part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War | |||||||
 The desert in Arizona, where Stanwix Station lies. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States |
 Confederate States | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| William P. Calloway | John W. Swilling | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 272 | 10 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1 wounded | None | ||||||
Stanwix Station, in western Arizona, was a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach line built in the later 1850s near the Gila River about 80 miles (130 km) east of Yuma, Arizona. Originally the station was called Flap Jack Ranch later Grinnell's Ranch or Grinnell's Station. In 1862, Grinnell's was listed on the itinerary of the California Column in the same place as Stanwix Ranch (or Stanwix Station) which became the site of the westernmost skirmish of the American Civil War.[1] A traveler in 1864, John Ross Browne, wrote Grinnell's was six miles southwest of the hot springs of Agua Caliente, Arizona.[2]
- ^ "The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Chapter LXII. Operations on the Pacific Coast. January 1, 1861 – June 30, 1865. Part I, Correspondence. pp. 1017–1018 Distances from Los Angeles, Cal., eastward". Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved July 27, 2011.
- ^ John Ross Browne, Adventures in the Apache country: a tour through Arizona and Sonora, with notes on the silver regions of Nevada, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1869, pp.82–83