Camp Greene (Washington, D.C.)

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. It has been made an Underground Railroad site on the National Park Service's Network to Freedom.

For the camp in North Carolina, see Camp Greene.
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