Primary Sources
Here we have provided links to some primary and secondary sources we use to create our representation.
The George Rogers Clark Papers is a collection of documents, inlcuding letters, memiors, journal entires and much more relating to the expeditions in the Illinois Territory. It was first published in 1912, the version that is available here.
The founder of our unit went through painstaking research to come up with what Worthington's Company looked like. Click Here icon to view the research paper.
George Rogers Clark wrote his memoir of the campaign against the Illinois Country by Thomas Jefferson's request sometime after 1791. The date it was finished and recieved by Jefferson is not certain, however we do know that it was publsihed in two volumes by the Bowen-Merrill Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Kansas City, Missouri, in 1897. It is available to view on here.
In 1991, the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Illinois and the Sons of the Revolution in the State of Illinois funded the microfilming of 85,000 images of original documents Pertaining to the Illinois Regiment onto 13 reels. Abstracts of these documents can be found here.
A friend and fellow reenactor named Paul Nelson conducted independent research and wrote a paper about the differences between a musket and a rifle during the American Revolution. It explains how the musket is superior in combat, and dispels many myths about tactics and the use of weapons at the time. Click here to read it.
