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Fort Davis National Historic Site
 As emigrants, mail coaches, and
freight wagons made their way across the Chihuahuan Desert, they sought the
protection of the U.S. Army against established a new post at the head of a box
canyon, in what would become the Davis Mountains. The post was named Fort
Davis for Secretary of War Jefferson Davis.
Between 1854 until 1891, the troops
at Fort Davis fulfilled their primary role of safeguarding the San Antonio - El
Paso Road. Soldiers from the post regularly patrolled the road and
provided protection for wagon trains and mail coaches. In the post-Civil
War era, these soldiers included "Buffalo Soldiers", African-American troops
assigned to the fort.
Today, set in the rugged beauty of
the Davis Mountains, the remains of Fort Davis are some of the best preserved of
the southwestern forts.
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