{"id":227614,"date":"2016-02-28T02:57:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mystery-of-the-civil-wars-camp-casey\/"},"modified":"2016-02-28T02:57:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:57:39","slug":"mystery-of-the-civil-wars-camp-casey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mystery-of-the-civil-wars-camp-casey\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of the Civil War\u2019s Camp Casey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"446.19052523172\">\n<p><strong>From the Archive:<\/strong> U.S.\u00a0history is distorted by the prism of race, even the Civil War, which was fought over slavery but then enshrined\u00a0white heroes\u00a0when\u00a0Jim Crow racism\u00a0quickly asserted itself,\u00a0a reality relevant to Black History Month and to Chelsea Gilmour\u2019s investigation\u00a0into the mystery of Camp Casey.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-17343\"\/>By Chelsea Gilmour (Originally published on Feb. 26, 2015)<\/p>\n<p>As much as Virginia loves its Civil War history \u2013 chronicling and commemorating almost every detail \u2013 Camp Casey isn\u2019t one of the places that gets glorified or even remembered. Located somewhere in what\u2019s now Arlington County, just miles from the White House and U.S. Capitol, Camp Casey was where regiments of African-American troops were trained to fight the Confederacy to end slavery.<\/p>\n<p>While not the largest Union base for training U.S. Colored Troops (USCT), Camp Casey was one of the few located within the boundaries of a Confederate state. Yet, despite its historical significance, or perhaps because of it, Camp Casey has been largely lost to history.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14346\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/intro-image.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14346\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14346\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?82332e\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/intro-image.jpg\" alt=\"A U.S. Colored Troop soldier in the Civil War.\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/intro-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/intro-image-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/intro-image.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14346\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/intro-image.jpg\" alt=\"A U.S. Colored Troop soldier in the Civil War.\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/intro-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/intro-image-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/intro-image.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A U.S. Colored Troop soldier in the Civil War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the decades after the war, as the white power structure reasserted itself across the South including in Virginia, the narrative of the Blue and the Grey took hold, two white armies battling heroically over conflicting interpretations of federal authority, brother against brother. Though slavery was surely an issue, African-Americans were pushed into the background, almost as bystanders.<\/p>\n<p>In Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, statues of Southern heroes were erected seemingly everywhere. One city street called Monument Avenue is lined with statues starting with one to Gen. Robert E. Lee (erected in 1890) and then (between 1900 and 1925) others to Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, Gen. Thomas \u201cStonewall\u201d Jackson, Navy Lt. Matthew Fontaine Maury and President Jefferson Davis.<\/p>\n<p>If you drive north toward Washington along I-95, you see a gigantic Confederate battle flag flying next to the highway near Fredericksburg, the site of a Confederate victory in 1862, as well as frequent historical markers remembering not only battles but skirmishes. Across Virginia, there are eight national parks dedicated to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2016\/02\/27\/mystery-of-the-civil-wars-camp-casey\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Archive: U.S.\u00a0history is distorted by the prism of race, even the Civil War, which was fought over slavery but then enshrined\u00a0white heroes\u00a0when\u00a0Jim Crow racism\u00a0quickly asserted itself,\u00a0a reality relevant to Black History Month and to Chelsea Gilmour\u2019s investigation\u00a0into the mystery of Camp Casey. By Chelsea Gilmour (Originally published on Feb. 26, 2015) As much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}