Arizona City was damaged and down river rivals Colorado City and Jaeger City were destroyed by the Great Flood of 1862. Colorado City was rebuilt on higher ground and became part of Arizona City. Jaeger City was abandoned, its remaining inhabitants and the ferry moved up river to become part of Arizona City. With the end of the Butterfield route through New Mexico Territory in March 1861, and Apache hostilities mail ceased to be delivered except by military courier and the Arizona post office was discontinued June 8, 1863. Its second and last postmaster from July 7, 1858, Landsford Warren Hastings, later in the American Civil War proposed a plan, (never carried out), for the Confederacy to recapture Arizona as part of a campaign to cause a rising of southerners in California to take California from the Union. Hastings after the Civil War attempted to colonize Brazil with former Confederates.