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[Camp-fire Sketches and Battle-field Echoes (1886), p. 387]
WOW! That's amazing @John Hartwell . Thanks for sharingNot exactly a Civil War turtle, but he might have been ... if he weren't actually a tortoise and 10,000 miles away in the Seychelles at the time.
Meet Jonathan:
Believed to be the oldest living animal, Jonathan Tortoise was fully mature, and believed to be about 50 years old when he was captured, and brought to the island of St. Helena in 1882. The picture above was taken in 2014, when he was about 182 years of age, and he is still going strong. Hatched about 1832, he was an exact contemporary of many of our Civil War veterans. Below is a picture taken of Jonathan from about 1900: beside him stands a Boer POW, who was being held on St. Helena at the time.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(tortoise)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/good-new...t-living-animal-aged-184-has-first-ever-bath/
"Our conclusion : Definitely maybe true"Then, of course, there are the stories about alligator snapping turtles found with Indian arrowheads and Civil War bullets in them: https://outdoors360.com/hunters-find-bullets-american-civil-war-185-year-old-alligators-hide-true-story/View attachment 168214
Perhaps!"Our conclusion : Definitely maybe true"