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Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.
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Henry C. Wayne
U.S. Army (and later Confederate Army) officer
Henry Constantine Wayne was a United States Army officer, and is known for his commanding the expedition to test the U.S. Camel Corps as part of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis's plan to use camels as a transport in the West. Wayne was also a Confederate adjutant and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
USS Supply (1846)
Cargo ship of the United States Navy
The first USS Supply was a ship-rigged sailing vessel which served as a stores ship in the United States Navy. She saw service in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Camel
Genus of mammals
A camel is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been domesticated and, as livestock, they provide food and textiles. Camels are working animals especially suited to their desert habitat…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
United States Camel Corps
U.S. military experiment, 1856–1866
The United States Camel Corps was a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States. Although the camels proved to be hardy and well suited to travel through the region, the Army declined to adopt them for…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)