Historic California
Posts, Camps, Stations and Airfields
Daby's Ferry Post
A detachment of the 1st
Battalion of Mountaineers, California Volunteers was dispatched
in early June 1862 by Captain Eugene B. Gibbs, commanding Camp Curtis, to a crossing on the Mad
River about three miles from the town Arcata in Humboldt County
and there established a temporary post to safeguard the area's
settlers from further Indian incursions
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