Of the few accounts of Douglas, I always got a kick out of the one from "History, 31st Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, Organized by John A. Logan."

"His skeleton was picked up and his bones made into finger rings and other ornaments and sold to curiosity hunters from the North. When the supply was exhausted, the bones of cattle slain for beef were substituted, the souvenir fiend being fully satisfied they were part of 'Price's camel.'" I have thought of the obvious comparison of the fake bone rings with all of the relics of the "true cross" which were sold to pilgrims to the holy land. The saying was that if the all the pieces of the true cross were combined it would create a massive forest. Perhaps if all of the rings from Old Douglas were combined it would have made a herd of camels.

I thank Jim Huffman for sending me this account as well as two others from Confederate Veteran, and one each from "The Lone Star Defenders" by Samuel Barron and "History of the First and Second Missouri Confederate Brigades" by Robert S. Beiver