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| P.S. Captains Lewis
and Clark thought I was a pretty good soldier and made me a
sergeant. I faithfully kept a journal as we traveled along the
Missouri River in 1804. While we traveled up the Missouri, I
suddenly got sick and died. People today say it was a burst
appendix, and that there was nothing even doctors could have
done to help me in those days. I was the only permanent member
of the expedition who didn't get to see the Pacific Ocean. A
posthumous land grant was later given to my brothers and sisters. |
About St. Charles Floyd's
Picture Above:
"Sgt. Charles Floyd's skull was recovered from the grave in 1895,
photographed, and a cast was made. The cast and other forensic evidence
was used by an expert (and descendant of Floyd's brother) named
Sharon Long to construct this model of Floyd's face. This mannequin
is on display at the Sgt. Floyd River Museum/Sioux City Public Museum
in Sioux City, Iowa, near the Floyd gravesite." <Top>
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