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Camp Stanton, USCT

Benedict, Maryland1 min readFile amended October 2, 2026Directions

Camp Stanton, USCT is a historic site in Benedict, Maryland, an NPS Network to Freedom. The USCT camp—where the freedmen trained for the Union. The archive files it under Underground Railroad history, the Underground Railroad and African American history. The dossier holds 3 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors.

Archive note: 3 sources on file

Status

Operating

Access

Open to public

Designation

NPS Network to Freedom

Coordinates

38.512, -76.680 · Approximate (city centroid)

Signal: cold trace

Is Camp Stanton, USCT haunted?

No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.

Dark History Historic Sites

The record — long form

Camp Stanton is the USCT's ground — the 1863 training camp on the Patuxent, the 8,700 Black soldiers Maryland raised. The regiments were the output — the 7th, 9th, 19th, and 30th Colored Infantry, the freedmen and the free who enlisted. The disease was the killer — the unhealthy waterside, the dozens who died before they fought.

The burning was the end — the March '64 abandonment, the camp torched, the dead moved to Arlington. Dr. Augusta was the surgeon — the first Black Army doctor, the Howard professor after. Camp Stanton is the slave-state contradiction — the recruiting in the heart of Maryland's slaveholding, the men who became soldiers where they'd been property.

The file keeps Camp Stanton: the October 1863 establishment, the four regiments, the disease deaths, and the burning.

Camp Stanton is the archive's Charles County file — the USCT's training ground.

Why this file matters

Camp Stanton is the archive's Charles County file — the Black soldiers' camp in slave country.

A camp keeps its irony — the file's suggestion being that Stanton's hold is the location: the recruiting in slaveholding Maryland, the 8,700 who became soldiers, and the ground that was burned.

Documented history

NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Camp Stanton, USCT's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.
Verified historyNational Park Service
Camp Stanton, USCT is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.
Verified historyNational Park Service
The camp is documented. Camp Stanton, USCT's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'NPS Network to Freedom listing' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
Verified historyNational Park Service