Kaskaskia, IL
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Brigadier General George Rogers Clark
The Night of the Fourth of July
George Rogers Clark crossed the Kaskaskia River on the night of July 4–5, 1778, knowing that if anything went wrong he had no fallback. His force numbered around 175 men — some accounts say fewer. He ...
Modern Voices
The Town the River Took
There is a place in southern Illinois where the Mississippi River changed its mind. For 178 years, the Kaskaskia River flowed parallel to the Mississippi for several miles before joining it, and betw...
