Efforts are currently being made to locate and potentially excavate a significant Civil War site in Detroit, where a regiment of Black Union soldiers from Michigan and Canada prepared for battle.
Camp Ward was situated on Detroit’s near east side, in the Lafayette Park neighborhood. Although a state historic marker is present near the site, the exact location of this former farm had been uncertain.
That changed last summer when researchers from the Michigan Underground Railroad Exploratory Collective, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and the University of Michigan’s Museum of Anthropological Archaeology used ground-penetrating radar to uncover the site’s remains.
