War in East Texas: The Regulator Moderator War

In April of 1841, Charles Jackson rode into Shelbyville, Texas, and killed an unarmed land swindler named Joseph Goodbread. Jackson then raised a private army, the Regulators, and Goodbread’s friends raised one of their own, the Moderators. For the next four years, the two sides ambushed each other on the roads, burned each other out, flogged men half to death, and hanged them from oak trees in front of hundreds of onlookers. Or at least they did, until the Regulator commander, a twenty-something gambler named Watt Moorman, started drawing up a death list and openly talking about taking over the Republic of Texas. That was enough to bring Sam Houston to East Texas with six hundred militiamen. By the time it was over, more than thirty men were dead in a feud that historian Bill O’Neal called the deadliest in the history of the American frontier.

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