Military
From 1863-1891, soldiers at Fort Union did not see a single large Army base but two neighboring communities: the Post of Fort Union and the Fort Union Quartermaster Depot. Each had its own commander and a distinct mission. At the Post, cavalry and infantry regiments rotated through as the fighting forces of the frontier Army, patrolling the Santa Fe Trail and the surrounding region to keep the peace among local residents, travelers, traders, Comanches, Kiowas, Mountain Utes, and Jicarilla Apaches. At the Quartermaster Depot, soldiers and civilians handled quartermaster work rather than patrol or combat training, tracking, ordering, organizing, warehousing, and transporting the goods the army needed to be ready to fight.
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