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Col. Albert J. Fountain, department com-
mander, is one of the most prominent characters
on the southwestern frontier. He is a born
leader of men, and as a gallant soldier, a suc-
cessful lawyer, a brilliant lawyer, a keen, for-
cible writer, and a public-spirited citizen, he
has no superior. Col. Fountain was born in New
York in 1838. He migrated to California in
1854, and at an early age successfully engaged
in literary work on leading daily papers on the
Pacific coast. When the war broke out he en-
listed as a private in Co. E 1st Cal. He was soon
promoted to be first sergeant, and marched with
his company, as a part of Carleton's column,
from California across the deserts of Arizona
and New Mexico to the Rio Grande. For gallant
conduct in a fight with Apaches Fountain was