The
Civil War was always good for arcane stuff, and this (via
Steve Warren of the
Civil War Round Table at the
Union League in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is no exception:
On the evening of 18 September 1864, while Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie's Indian troops were awaiting word from General Richard Gano about the whereabouts of the wagon train they were after, something remarkable appeared to the Confederate force. The Native American troops were astonished to see a white deer, which they believed to be a good luck omen, before the attack on the wagon train the very next night.
Rico says it wasn't
this deer, obviously;
Stand Watie's deer has been dead for 150 years...
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