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The Battle of Lincoln, New Mexico, so-called Five-Day Battle or Five-Day Siege, was a five-day-long firefight between the Murphy-Dolan Faction and the Regulators that took place between July 15–19, 1878, in Lincoln, New Mexico. It was the largest armed battle of the Lincoln County War in the New Mexico Territory.
On March 6, 1878, the Regulators tracked Morton in the countryside near the Rio Peñasco. After a five-mile running gunfight, Morton surrendered on the condition that his fellow deputy sheriff, Frank Baker, would be returned alive to Lincoln.
In Lincoln …was the centre of the Lincoln County War (1878), fought between rival merchants for economic domination. It began with accusations of cattle rustling and escalated to murder and a five-day gun battle at the courthouse.
From February 18, 1878, to February 18, 1879, the rivals fought for economic supremacy, first through the legal system and then with bullets, until law and order finally collapsed. Tunstall's murder by a sheriff's posse in February 1878 prompted his supporters, now styled "the Regulators," to regroup around McSween.
Jun 12, 2006 · The Lincoln County War was a lawless episode in New Mexico history that is best remembered today for having triggered the legend of Billy the Kid. On April 1, 1878, during that bitter business feud, the Kid and other so-called Regulators killed Lincoln County Sheriff William Brady.
Law on the Frontier: The Lincoln County War. Sources. The Lincoln County War. In 1878 a “ war ” erupted in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory. Gen. Philip Sheridan, a Civil War hero, observed that “ the population of that section is divided into two parties, who have an intense desire to exterminate each other . . .
The Lincoln County War was an Old West conflict between rival factions which began in 1878 in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, the predecessor of the state of New Mexico, and continued until 1881. The feud became famous because of the participation of William H. Bonney.
