Samuel Griffith, a local farmer, visits camp at Wood River, and Clark sends Sgt. Floyd to Cahokia with letters for Lewis. In the evening, Drouillard arrives at Cahokia with eight new recruits brought from a fort in Tennessee.
Frontier Soldiers on Parade
Courtesy U.S. National Park Service, Gateway Arch National Park.
New Recruits
Cahokia December 17th 1803.
Dear Captain,
Drewyer arrived here last evening from Tennissee with eight men. I do not know how they may answer on experiment but I am a little disappointed, in finding them not possessed of more of the requisite qualifications; there is not a hunter among them
M. LEWIS.[1]Lewis to Clark. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 144.
Letters for Lewis
Continu to raise Cabins, Sent off C Floyd to Koho [Cahokia] with Letters for Capt Lewis to put in the post office &.
—William Clark
Mr. Griffith and Mr. Gilbert
Several boats pass down to day a Pierogue Came to, a Mr Saml Griffeth good farmer who Lives 9 miles up the Misouris & a Mr. [Martin? Charles?] Gilbert a Trader in Salt
—William Clark
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.
Old Cahokia Courthouse is a High Potential Historic Site along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail managed by the U.S. National Park Service. The site is managed by the State of Illinois and is open to the public.
Notes
| ↑1 | Lewis to Clark. Donald Jackson, ed. Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with Related Documents: 1783-1854, 2nd ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978), 144. |
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- The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Day by Day by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2018). The story in prose, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
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