Camp Verde was a United States Army facility established on July 8, 1856 in Kerr County, Texas.

[2]: 155 Some camels were kept in San Antonio, where Rip Ford considered using them in his recapture of Fort Brown due to the drought conditions between the Nueces and Rio Grande.

[4]: 350 When Union troops reoccupied Camp Verde in 1865, they found about 66 camels remaining,[2]: 156  which they auctioned off to Bethel Coopwood.

Secretary of War Jefferson Davis chose Henry C. Wayne to direct the US Camel Military Corps and, upon advice from Edward Fitzgerald Beale, placed David Dixon Porter in command of the ship, Supply, tasked on 10 May 1855 "to proceed without delay to the Levant" for the "purchase and importation of camels and dromedaries to be employed for military purposes".

[2]: 83 Porter made a second journey to the Levant under Davis's orders, returning to Texas with forty-one camels on 10 February 1857, plus nine additional men and one boy, including Hadji Ali and George Caralambo.

[2]: 94 Davis's replacement as Secretary of War, John B. Floyd, chose Edward F. Beale to command the Camel Corps.

[2]: 98  Faulk departed Camp Verde on 19 June 1857 with twenty-five camels, leaving behind forty-six, taking the Lower road from San Antonio to El Paso;[2]: 104  he reached the Fort Defiance area by 24 August[2]: 108  and the Colorado river on 17 October.

[2]: 112  Beale noted the camels had gone for up to thirty-six hours without water, subsisted on bitter greasewood shrubs, and were impossible to stampede.