Camels were used in the Civil War?!? | The Story of the U.S. Army's CAMEL CORPS

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@judyzwemke9305 9 ай бұрын

You always come up with another obscure story. Atta girl! Keep them coming!

@historyandhearsay 9 ай бұрын

Thank you Judy! :)

@BSNFabricating 8 ай бұрын

Well, THAT'S a new one. I'd heard a little bit about the using camels, but very little until now. Keep up the good work!

@historyandhearsay 8 ай бұрын

It was new for me also, when I came across it! Thank you so much!

@tballstaedt7807 9 ай бұрын

The North American Great Basin and the Mojave Desert are the ancient ancestral environments of the Camel. Put simply, they evolved there and propagated into the rest of the world from there. A tid bit you touched on was the Camel's thriving on Mesquite. This shocked the soldiers who didn't realize that this was the type of foliage the Camel had evolved to eat. I believe it was prejudice, politics, and the logistics needed to import camels that deprived the frontier and the pioneers of a draft animal ideally suited to the American west. I wonder how different history would be if the Camel had a foothold in the westward expansion.

@historyandhearsay 9 ай бұрын

Yes! It does make one wonder! Thanks for watching! :)

@davidhollenshead4892 9 ай бұрын

You don't need to wonder, just look into how Camels were successfully used in Australia...

@lonwof2105 9 ай бұрын

"The horses and the mules were divas..." hahahahaahah

@historyandhearsay 9 ай бұрын

Clearly! 🤣🤣

@timpoint0 9 ай бұрын

Thank you, very informative. In this context it’s spelled Corps.

@historyandhearsay 9 ай бұрын

I’ll have to look into that! Thanks for watching :)

@carldill5916 8 ай бұрын

There is a ranch in between Abilene and Wichita Falls Tx that has some decendants of these camels.

@historyandhearsay 8 ай бұрын

I’ll have to check that out& see how close it is to me! (I’m in Texas)

@carldill5916 8 ай бұрын

@@historyandhearsay I want to say it was near Munday. It was quite a while ago that I saw them driving north to Wichita Falls

@historyandhearsay 8 ай бұрын

@@carldill5916 I’m about an hour & a half from Wichita Falls, so I would be curious to look it up! :)

@aprilknerr4443 9 ай бұрын

Never heard this before. Interesting concept

@historyandhearsay 9 ай бұрын

I discovered it, when I was researching the state laws & I was like WHAT!? 😆

@ChristinasHome 9 ай бұрын

Very cool! 😆

@historyandhearsay 9 ай бұрын

☺️😆

@edwardhuster8466 8 ай бұрын

Very interesting.

@historyandhearsay 8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it :)

@AaronD87 9 ай бұрын

“The camels didn’t really smell worse than horses, mules and unwashed men” 🤣😂

@historyandhearsay 9 ай бұрын

Probably didn’t 😆

@lonwof2105 9 ай бұрын

I wish they were 3 million instead of what we got... - Good Ol Rebel

@davidhollenshead4892 9 ай бұрын

So the South could continue to work stolen people to death??? WTF??? Wishing that the Confederacy Won is like wishing Adolf Hitler was more successful !!!

@itsalwaysteatime3803 3 ай бұрын

Never heard of these guys !!

@historyandhearsay 3 ай бұрын

@@itsalwaysteatime3803 I hadn’t until this last year!

@lisacooper3991 8 ай бұрын

Camels wasn't used in the civil war, the camels were sold at auction in 1864..

@historyandhearsay 8 ай бұрын

The American civil war lasted from 1861 until 1865

@OctJean 4 ай бұрын

It’s a common misconception that there is a law that you can’t hunt camels in Arizona because of the government bringing them over in the 1850’s and just letting them go but them still being “government property”. However, it is illegal to trip horse in Arizona! 🤷🏻‍♀️😂 “A person who knowingly or intentionally trips an equine for entertainment or sport is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor. If convicted, you’d serve a minimum of 48 hours in jail and pay a fine of at least $1,000. An “equine” is defined as a horse, pony, mule, donkey, or hinny. “Trips” means knowingly or intentionally causing an equine to lose its balance or fall by use of a pole, stick, or rope or any other object or by any other means.” ARS (Arizona Revised Statues) (§13-2910.09)

@historyandhearsay 4 ай бұрын

@@OctJean 🤣 that’s a good one!!