and the wheat fields and other crops surrounding the settlements. Others chased after the New Mexicans through Mora Valley, as the surviving insurgents and other inhabitants fled up and over the surrounding mountains, to other villages of northern New Mexico. They stayed in these other hamlets for some time, due to crop and livestock destruction by Morin's men leaving them no food source. Meanwhile, the bodies of the American casualties of the January battle in Mora were returned to the garrison at Las Vegas and buried there. The New Mexican civilians eventually returned to Mora and rebuilt. Morin later justified his "scorched earth" actions by stating that he fought the New Mexicans in such a manner as revenge for their killing of Capt. Hendley at Mora just a week earlier. There was a feeling on the American side that the Mexican-and-Indian militia had acted without provocation, despite the advancement of armed US troops on their homesteads, and certainly that the killings of American civilian traders in Mora (perhaps by different insurgents) had been outright murder. The original Taos Revolt insurrectionists, including leader "Montojo" Pablo Montoya, had been executed immediately in Taos, while at least 28 more were later captured and tried for murder and treason – by courts and juries made up of friends, family, and business partners of the American victims – then hanged, the first known executions by this method in Taos Valley. The American reaction to this was not universally positive (and one treason conviction was posthumously overturned by the US Supreme Court a year later). Eyewitness Lewis Hector Garrard wrote in 1850 of the trial: Morin would go on to fight the final engagement of the Taos Revolt, at the Battle of Cienega Creek near Taos, on July 9, 1847. See also Battles of the Mexican–American War List of battles fought in New Mexico References 1847 in Mexico Battles of the Taos Revolt History of Mora County, New Mexico February 1847 events