Editing Fort Wingate (section)

===19th century===
*1849: A hay camp was set up near [[Seboyeta, New Mexico]] and was called Fort Wingate.<ref name="NMForts">[http://newmexicohistory.org/places/fort-wingate Fort Wingate] @NewMexicoHistory.org</ref> It was named for Major Benjamin Wingate, 5th U.S. Infantry, who died on 1 June 1862 from wounds he received during the [[Battle of Valverde]].<ref name=frazier>{{cite book |author= Fraizer, Robert Walter|title= Forts of the West |year= 1965|publisher= University of Oklahoma Press |location= Norman |isbn= 0-8061-1250-6 }}</ref>
*1860: Fort Fauntleroy was established at Bear Springs (Ojo del Oso) as an outpost of [[Fort Defiance, Arizona|Fort Defiance]]. Colonel [[Thomas T. Fauntleroy (soldier)|Thomas T. Fauntleroy]] named the fort for himself.<ref name="NMForts"/>
**1861: Fort Fauntleroy was renamed Fort Lyon for Brig. Gen. [[Nathaniel Lyon]], a Unionist, when Fauntleroy left New Mexico to join the [[Provisional Army of Virginia]] after the state seceded from the Union. Fort Lyon was closed on 10 September 1861 at the start of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref name="NMForts"/> 
*1862: Fort Wingate was moved near a large spring at [[San Rafael, New Mexico]], also known as "Bikyaya" or "El Gallo" (the rooster).<ref name=frazier/><ref name="NMForts"/> It was designed to house four companies of troops.
**1864: [[Edward Canby]] ordered Colonel [[Kit Carson]] to bring four companies of the ''First New Mexico Volunteers'' to the fort to "control" the Navajo.
** 1864–1866: It was the staging point for the Navajo deportation known as the [[Long Walk of the Navajo]].
**1865: The New Mexico Military District had 3,089 troops, 135 of them at Fort Wingate.
*1868: Fort Wingate was moved back to the former site of Fort Lyon at Ojo del Oso.<ref>James H. Defouri, ''[https://archive.org/details/TheCatholicChurchInNM Historical Sketch of the Catholic Church in New Mexico]'' (1887) p. 81</ref>
**1868: Navajo people returning from Bosque Redondo were temporarily settled at the Oso Del Ojo Fort Wingate before spreading out into the newly established Navajo Reservation.
**1873–1886: The fort's troops participated in [[Apache Wars]] with troops and recruited [[Navajo Scouts]].
**1878: Fort Wingate had 137 troops.
[[File:Lt. Cornelius C. Smith 1895.jpg|thumb|right|'' In 1895 Second Lieutenant [[Cornelius C. Smith]], a [[Medal of Honor]] recipient, posed with his favorite horse, Blue, in front of his quarters.'']]
**1868–1895: Fort Wingate troops often settled disagreements between Navajo and "citizens" in New Mexico.
**1891: Fort Wingate troops assisted Arizona units against angry [[Hopi]]s.