Posted on 08/17/2017 3:44:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Wisconsin is quietly home to America's northernmost Confederate cemetery. On Thursday, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin ordered it taken down.
MADISON, WI — As public officials across the country grapple with calls to take down Civil War statues erected in honor of the Confederacy's military history, the Mayor of Madison, Wis. has ordered the removal of the state's lone memorial to fallen Confederate soldiers.
About 140 Confederate soldiers died at Camp Randall during the Civil War as prisoners of war, and their graves were honored in the "Confederate Rest Cemetery" within the Forest Hill Cemetery. Soglin stated he ordered staff to remove a plaque and a stone there.
"Taking down monuments will not erase our shared history," Soglin said in a prepared statement. "The Confederacy’s legacy will be with us, whether we memorialize it in marble or not. I agree with other Mayors around the country also speaking out and taking action. We are acknowledging there is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it. In Madison, we join our brothers and sisters around the country to prove that we as a people are able to acknowledge, understand, reconcile, and most importantly, choose a better future for ourselves."
Confederate Rest Cemetery
Taken in context, Madison seems like an unlikely spot for anything resembling a Confederate monument, yet according to the website Ironbrigader.com, a site in Madison, Wis. is the northernmost Confederate cemetery in the U.S.
Madison was the home to the Union Army's Camp Randall during the Civil War. According to Wisconsinhistory.org, between April and May 1862, 1,400 Confederate prisoners of war were housed at Camp Randall's garrison. Many of the prisoners sent to Wisconsin were from the 1st Alabama Infantry.
According to media accounts of the day, "While the first group was in relatively good physical condition, the second group was in much worse shape, with many suffering from pneumonia, mumps, measles, and chronic diarrhea. These prisoners were taken off the train on stretchers."
19th-Century medical care was not prepared for the sick and wounded transported to Camp Randall, and additionally,conditions at the camp were initially so poor that, "Madison’s civilian population had been shocked at the condition of the ill prisoners and townspeople helped out by bringing food and other supplies to Camp Randall."
About 140 of those housed at Camp Randall ended up dying of various maladies and were buried at what is known today as the Confederate Rest Cemetery.
That cemetery and monument to those who died at the camp were laid to rest at Madison's Forest Hill Cemetery.
68 Daley was a scary guy.
“The policeman is not here to create disorder. The policeman is here to preserve disorder.”
I wouldn’t bet any borrowed money on that if I were you.
I think that’s kind of beside the point...at THIS point. The Socialists are in Full Throat right now! WHY are we giving them THIS platform...this re-write of History?
Why give them an INCH? Or maybe you side with them?
Just asking...
When do they start digging up the Bodies?
It is simply amazing watching this spectacle take place.
There is no such thing as a Zombie Apocalypse, but there are certainly too many Democrats running around causing problems.
I usually go by, ‘Sconny. ;)
Oh, Trust Me. We KNOW who he is!
That’s why, ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ is referred to as, ‘20 square miles...surrounded by Reality!’
It’s an insane asylum.
This is the first one that I am OK with. I was born in Mississippi and I’ve never met anyone from Wisconsin that I found pleasant to be around. Our lessons are wasted on them.
Yeah, better than some of his successors. In retrospect.
“...has been turned into a fool by his slavish desire to be PC and acceptable to his fellow leftist haters and fools.”
Oh, if only that were true! This is the ‘Berkeley of the Midwest.’
Soglin will have statues erected to HIM in the future of this gawd-forsaken college town. They WORSHIP him; they do NOT see him as a fool. *SPIT*
It scares me beyond reason as to the tens of thousands of ‘kids’ cranked out of our education system each year.
We, as a Nation, are DOOMED! You know darn well that these ‘smart’ Socialists will find some other way to feed their message of, ‘Hopey-Changey’ to the masses at SOME point in the future.
Socialism is a turd wrapped in pretty paper. It’s all in the Marketing...and a LOT of the Socialists coming OUT of our colleges HAVE Marketing Degrees!
Did you actually read what I wrote?
They are due the same honor as all dead American POWs.
Is that somehow difficult to understand?
“He may have consulted with city council on the issue.”
There isn’t a single SANE, Conservative voice on our City Council. All have been run off in one way or another.
It took them more than a DECADE to do it, but By Gaia, they did it!
“Liberals disgust me.”
You and me, both!
Exactly! Good Freeping, my FRiend!
I want every Alabama Patriot UP HERE and sitting on Da Mayjor’s STOOP by daybreak!
(Most buried there were from an Alabama unit.)
“If we’re going to be PC, then let’s be PC. The POS mayor seems to have a huge blind spot in his half-witted desire to decide which aspects of history should be reassessed and which should not.”
You’re awesome. :)
“But then taking down the monument to southern women in Baltimore wasn’t an issue to feminists. Even former Speaker Pelosi, scion of a Baltimore political family.”
They’ve got theirs. Screw the rest of us. *SPIT*
I had to give it up because I was working 60+ hour weeks before I retired. And now? 70+ hour weeks, as we farm. ;)
I gave it to AfraidfortheRepublic, but she had some falling out with FR; I don’t know the details.
I no longer have the list as I have a new computer, BUT - if you want to start one, I’ll be the first on your list. ;)
“...and I’ve never met anyone from Wisconsin that I found pleasant to be around.”
Seriously? LOL!
I've been to Madison 20 to 25 times. Worked for a corporation with headquarters there. In a business situation, I was probably dealing with some of the more conservative citizens of the area.
But I consider anyone who tows the PC line and believes it to be a fool, whether they are leaders or followers because PCness is system where we might say many questions cannot be answered, when in reality it's not even permissible to ask them.
PCness requires that its adherents ignore so much of reality that it can only bring a deterioration and maybe even eventual failure of any nation that pursues it for long.
And PCness is absolutely necessary to continue moving the USA toward socialism. I don't know if it can be turned around or not, but I believe we are definitely in the last decade or two where there is a chance to turn it around.
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