re: #125 Decatur Deb

Columbia AL is a river town of 740 people. We took one of their historical society’s graveyard dramatizations, where the reenacted the life of one of the many circus people buried there. In the 1800s it was a Winter refuge for several traveling shows, complete with elephants.

So they saw the elephant. Literally, not figuratively.

I wonder how many elephants there were on the North American continent in 1800.

(I suspect that you already are aware that during the Civil War “Seeing the elephant” meant having been in combat.)