The 3rd Squadron 4th Cavalry traces its direct lineage to C Troop 4th Cavalry which was constituted 3 March 1855 in the Regular Army as Company C, 1st Cavalry organized 17 June 1855 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. The troop was redesignated 3 August 1861 as Company C, 4th Cavalry. C Troop was reorganized and re-designated 29 July 1963 as the 3d Squadron, 4th Cavalry.
Bingo Bingham recently received a photograph of C Troop, our squadron's ancestor organization, taken in the 1880s at Ft. Huachuca, AZ. The photograph is from the J.H. Dorst papers in the library of the USMA. J.H. Dorst served in the 4th Cavalry and is in front of C Troop in this photo.
The photo was taken by C.S. Fly. See the back of the photo below.
C.S. Fly ran a lodging house and photo studio in the mining town of Tombstone, Arizona in the 1880's. Doc Holliday lodged in C.S. Fly's lodging house. C.S Fly's studio was located next to the OK Corral. Billy Clanton was shot in the alley next to Fly's Lodging House, where the Clanton's had gathered. Billy was relieved of his pistol by C. S. Fly after the gun fight. In 1886, Fly accompanied General Crook to Canyon de Los Embudos for the negotiations with Geronimo. His most famous photographs are of Geronimo, the negotiations, and the Apaches.
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