Living history day at endangered Civil War Camp.

There will be a living history encampment and media day at the Camp Finegan site in Marietta on the Westside of Jax., Fl., located at Hammond Blvd. and Greenland Ave. 9 am to 4 pm on Saturday, November 14, 2009.
By: Sons of Confederate Veterans (501 c)
 
Nov. 8, 2009 - PRLog -- There will be a living history encampment and media day at the Camp Finegan site in Marietta on the Westside of Jax., Fl., located at Hammond Blvd. and Greenland Ave. 9 am to 4 pm on Saturday, November 14, 2009 (Free Admission) we will be accepting donations. We are also looking for corporate backing to help save Camp Finegan.

"This property has a great amount of historical significance. We are looking forward to seeing it be preserved and marked accordingly. This site is the place we are going to put the historical marker for Camp Finegan, which is one of the nine markers on our heritage highway trail. This is the last of historic Camp Finegan that is still in its original condition, and there is no city and state money available to preserve it. It's up to us", Said Alvin Lee Kyle III, past Commander of the Capt. Winston Stephens Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans.  
Our infantry unit will be loading, firing, drilling and marching. Members of our cavalry unit will be demonstrating how they fight and the tactics they use. Our artifacts will be on display. We will have something for everyone to enjoy! Everyone's welcome and bring a lunch!

A little history about Camp Finegan:
Between railroad tracks and a residential area, is the location of an endangered Civil War site, Camp Finegan. Named after Brig. Gen. Joseph Finegan, who led the Confederate forces to victory in the 1864 Battle of Olustee. The camp had about 450 soldiers total. Camp Finegan was a Confederate Enlistment and training Camp. It also served as a buffer between Confederate Camp Milton and Federally occupied Jacksonville.

On Monday, February 8, 1864, around 8 pm, federal infantry, and cavalry units, under the command of colonel Guy Henry, moved in and took Camp Finegan. Camp Finegan, now under federal command, was renamed Camp Shaw and used to train United States colored troops. In the same area, next to the railroad track, the Confederates had a cannon mounted on a railcar. They would have an engine push the railcar toward Jacksonville to shell the federal forces and gunboats there. Union and Confederate forces had a historical first railcar to railcar gun duel along the tracks. One union man was killed and the union railcar was disable.

"We believe that the ultimate fate of nearly all Civil War battlefield land will be decided in the next decade", said Jim Campi, a spokesman for the Civil War Preservation Trust. The organization estimates that every day, 30 acres of hallowed ground is paved over, buried beneath concrete and lost forever.
Sons of Confederate Veterans was organized at Richmond, Virginia in 1896, the SCV continues to serve as a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to ensuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved.

Alvin Lee Kyle III
Past Commander
Capt. Winston Stephens Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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Sons of Confederate Veterans was organized at Richmond, Virginia in 1896, the SCV continues to serve as a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to ensuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved.
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