While the captains are in St. Louis, across the Mississippi at Wood River, four enlisted men are ordered to make maple sugar. In return, they are exempt from guard duty and receive an extra gill of whiskey each day.
Sugaring at Camp Dubois
Diane Haker
Sapphire Mountain Graphics. Used by permission.
Members of Camp Dubois’s sugar-making team labor over their kettles of boiling sap. Fifty-six gallons yielded 10 pounds of sugar.
Making Sugar
Detachment Orders
Camp River Dubois, Febr. 20th 1804. . . .
The four men who are engaged in making sugar will continue in that employment untill further orders, and will recieve each a half a gill of extra whiskey pr. day and be exempt from guard duty.—
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Meriwether Lewis Capt.
1st U. S. Regt. Infty.
Weather Diary
Therm at rise
weather wind Therm at 4 Oclk weather wind River 16 above 0 fair N E 30 above 0 fair N E fall ½ in. —William Clark[1]To assist the reader, the editor of this web page has omitted the “day of month 1804” column, merged the “River” columns, and spelled out some abbreviations.
Experience the Lewis and Clark Trail
The Lewis and Clark Trail Experience—our sister site at lewisandclark.travel—connects the world to people and places on the Lewis and Clark Trail.
Plan a trip related to February 26, 1804:
- Winter Camp at Wood River (Camp Dubois)
- Along the Mississippi (Inspiration Trip)
- Around St. Louis (Inspiration Trip)
Winter Camp at Wood River (Camp Dubois) is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site, near Hartford, Illinois, is managed as Lewis and Clark State Historic Site and is open to the public.
Notes
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