The Minor Regulators
This lists the minor members of the Regulators. Most of these minor members of the Regulators were Hispanic. There are over a dozen other minor Hispanic Regulators that aren't listed here because their names are unknown. Martin Chaves, led a band of about twenty-five Hispanic citizens from the small villages of San Patricio and Picacho, of where Chaves was a highly respected citizen. The Hispanics in Lincoln County, in general, intensely disliked the Murphy-Dolan-Riley faction. Chaves and his band fought as a kind of "back up" for the Regulators. Almost immediately after the Five-Day Battle that ended the war, the Hispanic Regualtors left the group and went back to their own lives. If you have any comments on them or want to know anything more about them, please e-mail me.
The minor Regulators
- James Albert 'Ab' Saunders, died of complications in an operation he was having on a wound in his left hip that he received in the Lincoln County War, at San Franciso, California on Feb. 5, 1883.
- Thomas Cullins (alias Joe Rivers), shot by Murphy-Dolan-Riley men and killed in the Lincoln County War at Lincoln, New Mexico on July 18, 1878.
- Steven 'Dirty Steve' Stephens, possibily died in Denver, Colorado in an unknown year.
- Dan Dedrick, died in 1938 at Big Bear, California.
- George 'Joe' Bowers, disappeared into Kansas in the mid-1880s.
- 'Tiger Sam' Smith, was killed by Apaches on April 20 or 21, 1880.
- Joe Smith, nothing known of life following Lincoln County War.
- John Scroggins, nothing known of life following Lincoln County War.
- William McCloskey, shot in the head and killed by fellow Regulator Frank MacNab for being a suspected Dolan man on March 9, 1878.
- Martin Chaves, died on December 8, 1931 of natural causes at Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- Atanacio Martinez, nothing known of life following Lincoln County War.
- Jesus Rodriguez, nothing known of life following Lincoln County War.
- Francisco Zamora, shot eight times by Murphy-Dolan-Riley men and killed in the Lincoln County War at Lincoln, New Mexico on July 19, 1878.
- Yginio Salazar, died of old age in New Mexico in 1936.
- Ignacio Gonzales,nothing known of life following Lincoln County War.
- Fernando Herrera, died at Alamogordo, New Mexico, probably in the 1930s.
- Jose Maria Sanchez, nothing known of life following Lincoln County War.
- Vincente Romero, shot three times by Murphy-Dolan-Riley men and killed in the Lincoln County War at Lincoln, New Mexico on July 19, 1878.
- Eusebio Sanchez, nothing known of life following Lincoln County War.
- Francisco Gomez, died in July 1946 at his home in New Mexico.
- Florencio Chaves, died in Lincoln, New Mexico, in the 1930s.
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