Events for January 16, 2025 - October 10

United States Colored Troops at Camp Casey, 1863-1865

Reinsch Library Auditorium, Marymount University 2807 North Glebe Road, Arlington

During the Civil War Camp Casey on Arlington Heights saw the organization of the Second and Twenty-Third United States Colored Troops – the only regiments raised in Arlington County during the conflict. Although the camp and the regiments went unmentioned in the history of Arlington published during the US bicentennial, they played an important role […]