Question: What is the birth date of the general Albert Franklin Banta assisted during the Apache Wars?
Context: The Battle of Fort Apache was an engagement of the Apache Wars between the cavalry garrison of Fort Apache and dozens of mounted White Mountain Apache warriors.  The battle occurred in eastern Arizona Territory on September 1, 1881. The Battle of Cibecue Creek was an engagement of the Apache Wars, fought in August 1881 between the United States and White Mountain Apaches in Arizona, at Cibecue Creek on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation.  After an army expedition of scouts and soldiers arrested a prominent medicine man, they were taking the prisoner back to the fort when ambushed by hostile Apaches.  During the conflict, soldiers killed the wounded medicine man, and most of the twenty-three Apache scouts mutinied, in the largest such action in United States history.  The soldiers retreated to Fort Apache and on the following day, the Apache mounted a counterattack.  The events sparked general unrest and led Apache warriors to leave the reservation and join Geronimo. The Apache Scouts were part of the United States Army Indian Scouts, most of their service was during the Apache Wars up to 1886 though the last scout retired in 1947.  The Apache scouts were the eyes and ears of the United States military and sometimes the cultural translators for the various Apache bands and the Americans.  Apache scouts also served in the Navajo War, the Tonto War, the Mexican Border War and they saw stateside duty during World War II.  There has been a great deal written about Apache scouts, both as part of United States Army reports from the field and more colorful accounts written after the events by non-Apaches in newspapers and books.  Men such as Al Sieber and Tom Horn were sometimes in charge of small groups of Apaches.  As was the custom in the United States military, scouts were enlisted with Anglo nicknames or single names.  Many Apache scouts received citations for bravery. George R. Crook (September 8, 1830 – March 21, 1890) was a career United States Army officer, most noted for his distinguished service during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.  During the 1880s, the Apache nicknamed Crook "Nantan Lupan", which means "Chief Wolf." The Battle of Apache Pass was fought in 1862 at Apache Pass, Arizona, in the United States, between Apache warriors and the Union volunteers of the California Column as it marched from California to capture Confederate Arizona and to reinforce New Mexico's Union army.  It was one of the largest battles between the Americans and the Chiricahua during the Apache Wars. Eskiminzin ("Ndee biyati' / Nnee biyati"': "Men Stand in Line for Him"; or "Hashkebansiziin", "Hàckíbáínzín" - "Angry, Men Stand in Line for Him", 1828-1894) was a local group chief of the Aravaipa band of the San Carlos group of the Western Apache during the Apache Wars.  Born about 1828 near the Pinal Mountains as a Pinaleño/Pinal Apache, through marriage into the Aravaipa, he became one of them and later their chief.  He desired a lasting peace between the indigenous peoples of America and the whites.  In 1871, Eskiminzin and the Pinaleño/Pinal band of the San Carlos Apaches under Capitán Chiquito accepted an offer by the US Government to settle down and plant crops in the vicinity of Camp Grant, a fort near modern-day Tucson, Arizona.  The plan was short-lived; on April 30, 1871, a band of anti-Apache American civilians under William S. Oury, Mexican civilians under Jesús María Elías, and Tohono O'odham warriors under their chief Francisco Galerita launched a merciless assault on the tranquil settlement without warning.  In the process of what became known as the Camp Grant massacre, 144 occupants (almost entirely children and women) were indiscriminately butchered and mutilated in the space of less than an hour, nearly all of them scalped.  Twenty-nine children had been captured and were sold into slavery in Mexico by the Tohono O'odham and the Mexicans themselves.  Eskiminzin was fortunate enough to survive the tragedy.  However, later in life he was suspected of sheltering his son-in-law the Apache Kid, was imprisoned without a trial, and soon after his release, died, a broken man, in 1894. Albert Franklin Banta (December 18, 1843 – June 21, 1924) was an American newspaperman, politician, jurist, and army scout.  As a scout, he was a member of the Wheeler Survey and assisted General George Crook during the Apache Wars.  Banta was influential in the creation of Apache County, Arizona and later represented the county in the Arizona Territorial Legislature.  As a newspaperman, he started and operated a number of papers throughout Arizona Territory. Private Albert D. Sale (1850 – November 28, 1874) was an American soldier in the U.S. Army who served with the 8th U.S. Cavalry in the Arizona Territory during the Apache Wars.  He was awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry against a hostile band of Apache Indians, killing an Apache warrior in hand-to-hand combat and seizing his war pony at the Santa Maria River on June 29, 1869. The Apache–Mexico Wars, or the Mexican Apache Wars, refer to the conflicts between Spanish or Mexican forces and the Apache peoples.  The wars began in the 1600s with the arrival of Spanish colonists in present-day New Mexico.  War between the Mexicans and the Apache was especially intense from 1831 into the 1850s.  Thereafter, Mexican operations against the Apache coincided with the Apache Wars of the United States, such as during the Victorio Campaign.  Mexico continued to operate against hostile Apache bands as late as 1915. The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States Army and various Apache nations fought in the southwest between 1849 and 1886, though minor hostilities continued until as late as 1924.  The United States inherited conflicts between settlers and Apache groups when Mexico ceded territory after the Mexican–American War in 1846.  These conflicts continued as new United States citizens came into traditional Apache lands to raise livestock, crops and to mine minerals.
Answer: September 8, 1830