On May 5, 1862, a Confederate foraging party rounding up cattle near the abandoned Butterfield Overland Mail Station fought a group of Apaches at Dragoon Springs. The soldiers were members of Company A, Governor John R. Baylor's Regiment of Arizona Rangers, under Captain Sherod Hunter, whose command was based at Tucson and engaged in operations against Union forces from California. Four of Hunter's men were killed, and the Apaches took 25 horses and 30 mules; whether any Apaches were killed is unknown. From the Apache point of view, the Confederate party was another threat to the security of their homeland. The Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache, including Cochise, was then living in the Dragoon Mountains and nearby Dos Cabezas, Chiricahua, and Peloncillo Mountains. Relations with the United States, already uneasy, had become markedly hostile in 1861 after Lt. Bascom falsely accused Cochise's group of kidnapping a child from a Sonoita Valley ranch. By 1862, the Apaches viewed any soldiers, whether Union or Confederate, as enemy invaders. Two months later they fought Union forces at Apache Pass in the Chiricahua Mountains. The Confederates killed in the 1862 skirmish were hastily buried a few yards from the stone walls of the recently abandoned station. Two graves are marked, those of Sergeant Samuel Ford and Richardo, a Hispanic cattle drover. The other two burial mounds are unmarked, though one probably holds Captain John Donaldson and the fourth burial remains unknown. These men are the only Confederates known to have been killed in battle within the boundaries of modern-day Arizona.