Camel Corps, 1855
August 20, 2026
Jefferson Davis, as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce, championed a U.S. Army experiment in the 1850s to use camels as pack animals in the arid Southwest. After earlier advocacy by Maj. Henry C. Wayne and others, Congress appropriated $30,000 in 1855. Army agents purchased camels in…
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