During the Modoc War, the dead were buried, reburied, and dispersed in a series of moves that gradually obscured their identities. This site was first consecrated on January 17, 1873, when two soldiers were buried here, and it became an official cemetery in April after thirteen enlisted men were brought from the battlefield at Hardin Butte. Officers were taken to private cemeteries in their home towns or to military cemeteries around the country, while most enlisted men were buried where they fell and then, after the war in August, were interred here. In November 1875, half were moved to the cemetery at Fort Klamath, and in 1885 all were taken from Fort Klamath to the Presidio in San Francisco. With each internment, fewer remains were identified, and most of the privates now share a single common grave. No remains lie here today, but the cemetery memorializes those who fought and died in conflicts of 1872 and 1873, including civilians, Modocs, volunteers, Warm Springs Scouts, and soldiers of U.S. Army units that later served in campaigns from the Indian Wars to World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Mexican Expedition, the War with Spain, and the Philippine Insurrection. The account closes with the reflection that many wars have followed and more may come, but there are no true winners in war and all pay a price.