On May 10th, 1855, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis personally penned one of the most unusual orders in the U.S. Army's

history to brevet Major Henry C. Wayne.

It read, in part, Sir, you are assigned to special duty

in connection with the appropriation

for importing camels for army transportation

and for other military purposes.

The order represented a victory for Davis in a four-year struggle with Congress to establish a

Camel Corps within the U within the US Army.

As a US senator, he introduced the measure in Congress

in 1851 and 1852, only to have it literally

laughed out of committee on both occasions.

I'm Jason Epperson, and this is the America's National Parks

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