--- title: Florida Woman Sues Confederate Group Over Camel Bite description: A Florida woman claims she was attacked by a "dangerous" camel at the home of Jefferson Davis in October 2015. canonical: https://time.com/4778973/jefferson-davis-camel-bite-lawsuit/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-15T14:57:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:43:38.188Z og:title: A Florida Woman Is Suing a Confederate Group Over a Camel Bite og:description: "This camel charged at her, stampeded her, and ended up biting her" og:url: https://time.com/4778973/jefferson-davis-camel-bite-lawsuit/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9980f00301c08224/6988cd4a7cdbac1c69d58586/gettyimages-144073325.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4070 og:image:height: 2289 og:image:alt: Sign in front of the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library in Biloxi, MS og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Florida Woman Is Suing a Confederate Group Over a Camel Bite twitter:description: "This camel charged at her, stampeded her, and ended up biting her" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9980f00301c08224/6988cd4a7cdbac1c69d58586/gettyimages-144073325.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Florida Woman Is Suing a Confederate Group Over a Camel Bite > Sponsored content. 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Visions of America—UIG via Getty Images Visions of America—UIG via Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan May 15, 2017 2:57 PM UTC A Florida woman is suing the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, [claiming she was bitten by a camel](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/15/a-camel-bit-her-at-jefferson-daviss-former-house-now-shes-suing-the-united-sons-of-confederate-veterans/?utm%5Fterm=.00f30b1aa9e4) at the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential library in Biloxi, Miss. Sylvia June Abbott says she visited Beauvoir, where the president of the Confederate states is said to have lived, in October 2015\. The Sons of Confederate Veterans own the Davis memorial home. While at the site, according to the [Washington _Post_,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/15/a-camel-bit-her-at-jefferson-daviss-former-house-now-shes-suing-the-united-sons-of-confederate-veterans/?utm%5Fterm=.00f30b1aa9e4) Abbott claims she was “attacked” by a camel named Sir Camelot and suffered from “serious injuries and fractures” as a result. “June was basically just walking across the grounds and this camel charged at her, stampeded her, and ended up biting her,” Abbott’s lawyer Charles Thomas told the [Biloxi _Sun Herald_.](http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article150240962.html) Abbott is seeking punitive damages as well as compensation for medical expenses. The camel has resided at Davis’ Biloxi home since March 2015, the [_Post_](http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article150240962.html) reports, and he was later named by a nine-year-old who won a contest. The presence of the camel and other animals drew tourists to the site, but according to the lawsuit, the animal is “dangerous” and prone to violent attacks. According to the [_Sun Herald_](http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article150240962.html), locals have seen the camel as an “asset” who loves caffeine and is adored by kids who visit Beauvoir. The _Post_, however, reports that animals have been removed from the site before: In December 2015, the Beauvoir board called for the removal of goats and the camel but the animals were brought back when visits dropped. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4778973/jefferson-davis-camel-bite-lawsuit/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4778973/jefferson-davis-camel-bite-lawsuit/"},"headline":"A Florida Woman Is Suing a Confederate Group Over a Camel Bite","datePublished":"2017-05-15T14:57:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:43:38.188Z","description":"\"This camel charged at her, stampeded her, and ended up biting her\"","url":"https://time.com/4778973/jefferson-davis-camel-bite-lawsuit/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","News","Lawsuit","cities","justice","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9980f00301c08224/6988cd4a7cdbac1c69d58586/gettyimages-144073325.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9980f00301c08224/6988cd4a7cdbac1c69d58586/gettyimages-144073325.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sign in front of the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library in Biloxi, MS","caption":"Sign in front of the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library in Biloxi, MS","creditText":"Visions of America—UIG via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4778973/jefferson-davis-camel-bite-lawsuit/","name":"A Florida Woman Is Suing a Confederate Group Over a Camel Bite"}}]}] ```