A second Camp Verde, located two miles below (downstream) from old Camp Verde in Kerr County, was established on March 31, 1862, by James M. Norris as a ranger station for the Frontier Regiment. This site is known today as Camp Verde C.S.A. and is not the site of the original U.S. Army post of Camp Verde U.S.A.. Camp Verde C.S.A. was located today’s Verde Creek Road, approximately one mile east of today’s Camp Verde Store, at the crossing of Verde Creek – Dr. James Crispin Nowlin’ s old house. This was located on what would later become the site of the Camp Verde schoolhouse (29°53.816’N x 99°5.671’W). It was garrisoned by members of Charles S. DeMontel’s Company and served as a frontier outpost, probably until the consolidation of the regiment in March 1864.

Company D of the Texas Rangers, commanded by Captain Charles S. de Montel was stationed at Camp Verde in March of 1862. In May 1863, command was transferred to Major W.J. Alexander until May 1864.

At Camp Verde C.S.A., Captain John Lawhorn commanded Company C of the Frontier Regiment from May of 1863 through March of 1864. This unit may also have been designated as Company B. Company K was at Camp Verde in January 1864, under the command of Captain William G. O’Brian. Company I, under the command of Captain James J. Callan was at Camp Verde in March of 1864. Captain Callan was reported as a deserter.

Camp Verde and Camp Ives had been abandoned at war’s end. Local minutemen and vigilantes patrolled the county and stood guard at Bandera Pass.

Camp Verde was reopened and repaired in 1866 and garrisoned by troopers of the US Fourth Cavalry.

Captain John W. Sansom commanded Company C, Frontier Forces at the lower Camp Verde in 1870 and 1871. Company C include a lieutenant, a medical officer, four corporals, a farrier, a bugler and 50 privates. The men occupied twenty tents and the officers operated out of an old house owned by Dr. James C. Nowlin, the company medical officer.

The Company Roster for Company C in 1871 included the following:

John W. Sansom, Captain

James C. Nowlin, Medical Officer

Charles A. Patton, Lieutenant