This article examines the treaties of guerrillas, manuals, military regulations and ordinances that were read and met by soldiers, militants, guerrillas, officials armed citizens, and all of them faced with the dilemma of the war or to achieve a stable and permanent peace. The focus is directed at the armed citizens who, after belonging to several corps (militants, guerrillas, national guards), ended up incorporated into a single military force: the liberating army, who played a decisive role in the construction of the State and in the expansion of citizenship, reaffirming a clearly liberal conception of the local society of that time.