Lewis
Meriwether Lewis was a captain in the Corps along with Clark.  He was born in Ivy, Virginia.  Before 1801 he served in the army.  Lewis and Clark met at a small frontier outpost of Greenville, where Clark was his commander.  When Clark left the army for Kentucky, the two kept in touch.  When Lewis was asked to become a captain on the Western expedition he invited Clark to also be a captain.  But congress failed to make Clark a captain. Instead they assigned him to second lieutenant.  This made Lewis really mad but he could not do anything about it.  Lewis told Clark that they would be equal partners and the other people of the Corps would not know that he wasn't supposed to be a captain.  Lewis and Clark both did not like Charbonneau, and some people believe that the only reason that they let him come on the expedition was because they wanted Sacagawea to come.  Lewis could be a very moody man.  He died at age 35 in 1809.  He died of self inflicted wounds.
 

Sacagawea
Alana J. White
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