When the Chilean civil war broke out in 1891, he abstained from participating in any of the fighting sides. Although the retaliation of the victors of the war, forced him to retire from the army in May 1892. But then he served as an instructor of the Militia Regiment Death Hussars, which was organized by a Chilean citizen, Enrique Allende Ríos, when the war between Chile and Argentina seemed imminent in that period.