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George Coe was dragged into the Lincoln County War after being arrested by county Sheriff William J. Brady. [citation needed] Coe and his cousin aligned themselves with the Lincoln County Regulators, riding with Billy the Kid, and facing off against the "Murphy-Dolan faction" and their supporters.
The Battle of Lincoln, New Mexico, so-called Five-Day Battle or Five-Day Siege, [1] [2] 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. [3] [4] It was the largest armed battle of the Lincoln County War in the New Mexico Territory.
George W. Coe, survivor of the Blazer's Mill fight, in 1934. Buckshot Roberts wanted no part in the Lincoln County War and had made plans to leave the area, selling his ranch and waiting for the check from his buyer.
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. [1] The feud became famous because of the participation of William H. Bonney ("Billy the Kid").
The Lincoln County War brought him to the front, but several of the other Regulators were actually the driving force behind the events, and had a history of killing alongside one another prior to the war. Ab Saunders, Charlie Bowdre, Doc Scurlock, Frank Coe, and George Coe had previously killed rustlers
Lincoln was the first US president to be assassinated. John Wilkes Booth shot him in the back of the head at Ford’s Theater five days after Confederate General Robert E Lee surrendered, the ...
The Lincoln County War broke out following the murder of a merchant, John Tunstall, that sparked the regional conflict. The Coes sided with the Lincoln County Regulators, part of the Alexander McSween faction. The Regulators faced off against Sheriff William J. Brady, and allied hired gunmen from the Jesse Evans and the John Kinney gangs.
In his book Frontier Fighter, George Coe describes the late 1800s houses in San Patricio as being "built for defense with thick adobe walls and portholes on top." Robery Utley's book High Noon in Lincoln describes San Patricio in the 1870s as made up of "some 15 adobe buildings scattered along a single street." [2]