Day-by-Day / November 12, 1803

November 12, 1803

Celestial observations

Fort Massac, IL Lewis begins celestial observations but is deterred by clouds. The captains are expecting a detachment of fourteen new recruits from Fort Southwest Point.

Parts of a Sextant

Equal Altitudes

took equal altitudes A. M. but was prevented from compleating the observation by taking an observation in the evening by the clouds—
—Meriwether Lewis

Missing Tennessee Soldiers

Opposit the Mouth of Missourie
December 16th 1803

Dear Brother

The men we expected to meet us at Fort Massac were not thure, which obliged us to Send an express to Tennessee for those men to percue us to our winter quarters,—, we Calld for a Detatchment of 14 men from that garrison to accompany us as far as Kaskaskees at wich place we intended to ogment our permonant party

Brother

Wm Clark^[1]James J. Holmberg, ed. Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 60.

Notes[+]

Notes
↑1	James J. Holmberg, ed. Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 60.

Discover More

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.
The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery (abridged) by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 2003). Selected journal excerpts, 14 May 1804–23 September 1806.
The Lewis and Clark Journals. by Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001). The complete story in 13 volumes.

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