If you read the pioneer correspondence of the time, they didn't like the Army officers, because they didn't play into this, 'Let's go kill the Indians' game.

This was the first tangible presence of the federal government or any civil authority in the Rogue Valley. Unlike, say, the stereotypical Western vision of Fort Apache, the primary mission of this fort was to protect the Indians from the whites in that period of time.

The pioneers were basically clamoring to kill off the Indians or have them moved out of here.