A widower with no close family, it is not clear where Altarriba settled after the war; in 1877 he was linked to the Catalan town of Aviá [REF].
As the Nocedalista crisis entered its terminal phase, in 1887 Altarriba engaged in a related conflict with Francisco Cavero y Alvarez de Toledo, the jefe of Aragón,[REF] with Carlos VII intervening and ordering truce;[REF] some authors claim that Cavero was dismissed [REF].