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George Rogers Clark's Illinois campaign...
George Rogers Clark's Illinois campaign...
Item # 705031
January 12, 1779
THE PENNSYLVANIA PACKET OR GENERAL ADVERTISER, Philadelphia, Jan. 12, 1779 The front page has most of a column taken up with a letter beginning: "I have lately met with...Mr. Deane's address to the public and one or two pieces relative rto it, for I cannot call them refutations, under the signature of Common Sense and Thomas Payne [sic], who I find are the same..." with more on this and Thomas Paine.
Page 2 begins with a letter from Daft. Joseph Bowman "...at a place called Illinois Kaskaskias [sic], upon the Mississippi...". This is a fine letter concerning attempts to control the Illinois Territory for the Americans.
Bowman was a soldier of some note. He was a frontiersmen and officer who fought during the Revolutionary War. He was second-in-command during Colonel George Rogers Clark's 1778 military campaign to capture the Illinois Country, in which Clark and his men seized the key British-controlled towns of Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes. Following the campaign, Bowman was critically injured in an accidental gunpowder explosion and subsequently died of his wounds.
He was the only American officer killed during the 1778-1779 Illinois campaign. Joseph Bowman kept a daily journal of his trek from Kaskaskia to Vincennes, which is one of the best primary source accounts of Clark's victorious campaign. This is one of those letters.
Over half of page 2 is taken up with: "Common Sense to the Public" which has much on the Silas Deane situation.
Pages 3 and 4 have several documents from Congress concerning financing of the war, signed in type by the Secretary: Charles Thomson.
Never bound nor trimmed, very handsome masthead, minor margin wear, generally very good condition.
Category: Revolutionary War
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