The soldiers were ordered to stop shooting and to convert the school into a hospital to care for federal soldiers.
The angry settlers would not disperse easily, and federal soldiers were called in to enforce the new tax.
Mexican federal soldiers were alerted to the activity and confronted the American sailors.
Randolph was burned down a second time by federal soldiers in 1865.
"Refusal to do so would bring an occupying force of federal soldiers into their counties."
Active duty regulations allow federal soldiers to accept but not to wear state awards.
The death toll during the battle stood around 1,000 federal soldiers killed and 300 of Villa's.
"There are federal soldiers and city police everywhere on the streets," said a businessman named Biruk.
Later, his colleagues had confirmed that he was shot in the head twice by Russian federal soldiers.
Approximately 253 federal soldiers and civilians were killed compared to 40 American Indians.