Editing Lincoln County War (section)

===Blackwater massacre===
On March 9, 1878, the third day of the journey back to Lincoln, the Regulators killed McCloskey, Morton, and Baker in the Capitan foothills along the Blackwater Creek. They claimed that Morton murdered McCloskey and tried to escape with Baker, forcing them to kill the two prisoners. Few believed the story, as they thought it unlikely that Morton would have killed his only friend in the group. As the bodies of Morton and Baker each bore eleven bullet holes, one for each Regulator, Utley believes that the Regulators murdered them and killed McCloskey for opposing them.{{sfn|Utley|1989|pp=59–60}} Nolan writes that Morton took ten bullets, and Baker was shot five times.{{sfn|Nolan|1998|p=114}} That same day, Tunstall's other two killers, Tom Hill and Jesse Evans, were shot while trying to rob a sheep drover near [[Tularosa, New Mexico]]. Hill died and Evans was severely wounded. While Evans was at Fort Stanton for medical treatment, he was arrested on an old federal warrant for stealing stock from an Indian reservation.<ref name="Fuller2015">{{cite book|last=Fuller|first=Mark S.|title=Never a Dull Moment: The Life of John Liggett Meigs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_vmjCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA224|access-date=February 17, 2018 |year=2015|publisher=Sunstone Press|isbn=9781632930736|page=224}}</ref>