Camp Greene (Washington, D.C.)

For the camp in North Carolina, see Camp Greene.
Union soldiers at Camp Greene on Mason's Island (now Theodore Roosevelt Island) in 1861. Behind them is the Potomac Aqueduct Bridge and Georgetown University on top of the hill. During the Civil War (1861-1865), the island served as a storage and distribution site, and also as a training camp for Union troops.

Camp Greene was the site of a training camp for the 1st United States Colored Infantry Regiment and other Colored Troops on Mason's Island, now known as Theodore Roosevelt Island, in Washington, D.C. The island was also a refugee camp for freedom seekers. It is situated in the Potomac River.[1] It has been made an Underground Railroad site on the National Park Service's Network to Freedom.

  1. ^ "Aboard the Underground Railroad - Rush R. Sloane House". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2021-06-02.