“The plaque to be removed explains the origin of the cemetery and who lies buried there.”
1) The North and the South fought a war against each other;
2) Sometimes the Northerners won a battle;
3) When the Northerners won a battle, they didn’t automatically execute every surrendering Southerner (yeah, I know, that’s utterly horrifying - that they didn’t just execute them out of hand);
4) Confederate POWs were brought to prison in Wisconsin;
5) Some of those prisoners died in Wisconsin; and
6) The Northerners holding them as prisoners had the simple human decency to give them a permanent resting place (maybe even with a religious ceremony - OH, THE HUMANITIES!!!!).
After all, the Earth might spin off of its axis if people learned all of those things.
“What an utter ass Paul Soglin is - but, apparently, the people of Madison are about the same, else why would they have elected this moron, this idiot, this ignoramous extraordinaire.”
Soglin has been a political chancre in Madison since the anti-war demonstrations/riots/destruction of the 60’s. He is about as vile as they come and reflects the filth that elects him.