Given the fact that the Army never had a 'Camel Corps' - the history of the affair is still interesting.
It was a short-lived, pre-Civil War experiment - and was carried out on contract.
For your reference:
There are good and bad descriptions of the Camel story.
The 'Good':
'A Bibliography of the Camel', California Historical Society Quarterly, December 1930. '
'Camels in California' - Gray - California Historical Society Quarterly, March 1930.
' Uncle Sam's Camels', the Journal of May H. Stacey, 1929 - Lewis B. Lesley (ed.),
'The Story of El Teion, 1942.' - Woodard - A very incomplete and undocumented work.
'The U.S. Camel Corps, an Army Experiment' - Faulk - Oxford University Press, 1976. A readable but sloppy work. The section an the far west is filled with errors.
'The Camel: its Evolution, Ecology, Behavior, and Relationship to Man' - Gauthiers-Pilters and Dagg - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1981
'Uncle Sam's Camels: the Journal of May Humphreys Stacey - supplemented by the Report of Edward Fitzgerald Beale' - Lesley - (ed.) - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1929
'Camels for Uncle Sam' - Yancey - Hendrick-Long Publishing Co., Dallas, TX, 1995
The 'Bad':
'Unique History of Fort Tejon' - Howard - Journal of the West. A mythical account; almost nothing is factual.
'Camels To California' - Fowler - 1950. A cut and paste rip-off of history published by Stanford University.
'Camels in the West' - Robertson - 1979. Riddled with errors.
'Drum Barracks and the Camel Corps' - booklet -California History Commission - hilarious collection of errors, mistakes, and folklore.
The 'Official':
Camel File, Quartermaster Dept., R.G. 92, U.S. National Archives (USNA), Washington, D.C.
Letters Sent and Received, Quartermaster Dept., Dept. of the Pacific
Letters Sent and Received, Hdqtrs., Dept. of the Pacific, in R.G. 92 and 393, USNA.
Letters Received, Sec. of War, 1856-1864, R.G. 107, USNA
And since you're already reading - an interesting tale to go along with the above.
'The Red Ghost' - Froman - American Heritage, XII (April 1961), pp. 35-37 and 94-98
Vaya,
Scouts Out!