Battle of Camp Supply June 11, 1870 Barely eighteen months had
passed since the establishment of Camp Supply in the valley
created by the confluence of Beaver River and Wolf Creek. The
supply depot for General Philip Sheridan’s winter campaign of
1868-1869 had grown to a garrison of five companies of the Tenth
U.S. Cavalry and three of the Third Infantry. In the late spring
of 1870, there were two camps about six hundred yards distance
separating the commands of the two regiments. The older of the
two camps was as a rambling arrangement of log buildings and
tents that had sprung up around the fortified stockade built in
November 1868. To the southwest was the more orderly compound of
log buildings. Black troopers of the Tenth had built picket
style log structures around a cavalry-sized quadrangle parade
ground. On the west side were the stables for the cavalry
horses. The garrison consisted of white officers and black
troopers of five troops of the Tenth, A, F, H, I, and K. Three
companies of the Third, B, E,