page_title: Siege of Tubac
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Siege of Tubac / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: Urrutia Map of Tubac: December 1766—January 1767 A Spanish colonial era map locating San Ignacio de Tubac Presidio in the northern Viceroyalty of New Spain (Colonial México). The present-day Tubac Presidio State Historic Park in Tubac, Arizona.
context_page_description: The Siege of Tubac was a siege of the Apache Wars, between settlers and militia of Confederate Arizona and Chiricahua Apaches. The battle took place at Tubac in the present day southern Arizona. The actual dates of this engagement have been lost to time.
context_section_description: The Tubacans, with their town virtually gone, left Tucson at about August 15, 1861. Their destination was the Rio Grande, east of Mesilla. Before completing their journey, the Arizonans would be attacked again by Apaches, this engagement is known as the Battle of Cookes Canyon. The battle in Cookes Canyon resulted in the Battle of the Florida Mountains.
  Charles D. Poston was one of the men who left Tubac as result of the siege, Poston, a Republican, supported the creation of an Arizona Territory separate from New Mexico Territory, which he discussed with President Abraham Lincoln after leaving Tubac.
  After the Civil War Tubac was briefly home to a command of United States troops but no population existed. The town was abandoned into the 1880s. By 1908, Tubac was being rebuilt but still had a very small population of less than 200. As of today, 149 years later, only about 1,000 people reside in the town. The casualties of the engagement are unknown.
caption: An early map of Tubac and surroundings.
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