Pittsburgh, PA
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
William Crawford
The Cost of the Western War
William Crawford did not want to command the Sandusky expedition. That is one of the few unambiguous facts in a story that has been told and retold for two centuries, accumulating layers of heroism an...
Modern Voices
Why the Rivers Mattered
When people think about the Revolutionary War in western Pennsylvania, they tend to think about battles that didn't really happen here, or they think about famous names — Clark, Crawford — without qui...
