By some estimates, a substantial percentage of the people who were transported to Florida in 1886 and 1887 died there before they could be relocated.

Children were particularly vulnerable, and the loss of so many children during the prisoner period was a demographic catastrophe that compounded the other losses of the war and captivity years.

The specific death of Lozen from tuberculosis at Fort Marion in 1889 was not an individual tragedy in isolation.

It was one instance of a systematic pattern — the use of confinement in disease-ridden conditions as an indirect mechanism for reducing the Apache population.

Whether this was deliberately intended or was the product of indifference to Apache welfare is a question historians have debated, but the outcome was the same either way: people who had survived years of warfare in some of the harshest terrain on the continent died of preventable disease in the humid humidity of coastal Florida.