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Show 944 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN The insurrectionary force was under the command of Manuel Cortés. All of these men were taken out WALDO, CULVER, OF THE MURDER The most prominent and shot. AND OTHERS AT MORA among them was Lawrence L. Walof Las Vegas. do, of Westport, Missouri, father of Henry L. Waldo, for many years. Mr. Waldo had been engaged in the Santa Fé trade masses of the Like Governor Bent, he was respected and liked by the ry, 1847, Februa of 15th the On . Indians the by and Mexican people g office an official proclamation, issued from the government printin and Mora at time this at ng at Santa Fé, recites the events occurri place. that at ction insurre the s suppres to taken were the steps which of the In this publication, a copy of which is on file in the records war department at Washington, it is said: s bat‘‘On the 25th ultimo Captain Hendley (of Colonel Willock’ Mora, talion) who was in command of the grazing parties on the Rio marched with 80 men to the town of Mora to suppress the insurrection there and arrest the murderers of Messrs. Culver, Waldo, Noyes and others, who were massacred at that place. ‘‘He found a body of Mexicans, under arms, prepared to defend entering the town of Mora. the town, and while forming his men into line for attack, a small party of the insurgents was seen running from the hills. A detachment was ordered to cut them off, which was attacked by the maim body of the enemy. A general engagement immediately ensued, the Mexicans retreating to the town and firing from the windows and Captain Hendley and his men closely loop-holes in their houses. pursued, rushing into their houses with them, shooting some, an running others through with their bayonets. ‘‘A large body of the insurgents had taken possession of an old fort and commenced a fire from the loop-holes. Captain Hendley, with a small party, had taken possession of an apartment in the fort adjoining and, while preparing to fire it, was shot by a ball from an room. He fell and died in a few moments. Our men, having D0 artillery, and the fort being impregnable without it, retired to Las Vegas. The enemy had twenty-five killed and seventeen taken prs oners. The American loss was one killed and three wounded. ‘On the 1st instant, Captain Morin, who had been ordered from Santa Fé by Colonel Willock to succeed Captain Hendley in the command, proceeded with a body of men and one piece of cannon to Mora and razed the towns (Upper and Lower THE WAR WITH the bodies were buried. Seven HISTORY Mora) to the ground, s wet the insurgents having fled to the mountains. Several Mexican captured, supposed to be concerned in the murder of Messrs. Culvet, Waldo and others, and, after many threats, were forced to show where MEXICO 245 of them were found ried to Las Vegas for interment.’’ +” and ecar- Subsequent to the battle at the Taos pueblo there does not appear to have been much activity among the revolutionists except in localities east of the mountains. In the month of May a grazing party and a wagon train were attacked and two or three men killed and a large number of horses and mules driven off. They were pursued by Major Edmonson, who overtook them in force in a deep canyon in Red river, where a severe engagement ensued, the details of which are given in a note.!7° 175 In his report from Las Vegas to General Price, dated January 25, 1847, Captain Chariton ; Lewis W. 8S. Murphy, 1st Missouri volunteers, says: ‘‘Romulus Culver of Ludlow Waldo, of Jackson; Mr. Prewitt [Benjamin] of Santa Fé; Cabanne, of Missouri,’and four or five others in company were taken prisoners, robbed and shot at Mora-town on or about the 20th of the month. The leader of the forces at that place is a man by the name of Cortéz.’’ the of side east the on communities or only towns The taking part in the uprising were Las Vegas and Tecolote, not mountains in San Miguel county, te or rere from Captain Hendley’s last report to Colonel Price, in which he Ae On the evening of the 20th inst. myself and Lieut. N. J. Williams appened at this place (Las Vegas) just as the town had assembled in general a to hear the same circular read that has been forwarded to you from taos. The alcalde of this place (Juan de Dios Maes) declared against the and stopped the express and forwarded the letter to you. Early ae h e next ; I took day this place of possession of my a part with ave ordered the balance to join me to-day.’’ en Waldo was a brother of Captain Waldo and command In a of Doniphan’s regiment. er written to Captain Waldo by him, six days prior to his death at Mora, ‘<Tt seems that a general mistake has been made by all that were e Said: ponent with the gente of this Territory in regard to their willingness to It is satisfactorily ascertained to the rule of the United States. i a at not one in ten is @ gusto, and, as far as I can judge, and I am well acquainted content.’’ with the eastern side of the mountains, not one in one hundred is The bodies of those killed at Mora, when brought to Las Vegas, were buried on the hill not known. to the west of the town (old town) but the exact location is f “78 Insurrection against the Military Government in New Mexico and Calioe 1847 and 1848, Senate Doc. No. 442, 56th cong., 1st sess., Report of D. ‘‘Upon jv arrival at San M; Edmondson, major commanding, pp. 21-24: Apache Indians I was informed that a large party of Cheyenne 4 h _ mouth of the Mora on Red river to join a marauding party of gone toandthe others, aoe numbering 300 to 400, and commanded by the outlaw, ortéz, commit Vn my and that small depredations arrival at Las on the property Vegas, May 20, settlements to sent into the of the citizens and American soldiers. a party about were detachments being being informed that of os Indians were in the mountains thirty miles north, having with them about 200 Stolen animals, I despatched Company F, Captain Morin, in pursuit. On the a marauding party Same day Company B, Captain Dent, was sent to disperse same the of On the evening to be about forty miles south of this place. — Cay I received information of the surprise of our grazing party under Captain |