After the events on the afternoon of February 4th, Bascom ordered his command to move toward and fortify the stage station, placing wagons end to end in a semicircle beside the station and corral, building outer breastworks, and filling empty grain sacks with earth along the inner side. Sergeant Daniel Robinson recalled a deep ravine near the position, and on the morning of February 5th Apaches assembled in force on a hill 800 yards away before dispersing and leaving a white flag. A warrior then approached the defended station to say that Cochise wished to have a talk with Bascom. During the talk, Cochise strongly appealed for the release of the captive Indians, but was told they would not be released until the boy was given up or found. After about an hour, Butterfield employee James Wallace approached the ravine apparently unnoticed, and a few Indians dashed out, seized him, and dragged him into it out of sight, ending the talk abruptly. A firefight followed between soldiers defending the stage station and Apaches firing from the surrounding hills and ravines. Three days later, in a final attempt to gain the release of Apache captives, Cochise and his warriors attacked soldiers at both the stage station and Apache Spring, but without success, and were compelled to abandon Apache Pass and move into the Chiricahua Mountains.