Posted on 01/15/2019 5:02:42 PM PST by SJackson
Stone Transferred To Wisconsin Veterans' Museum Storage
After 113 years, a monument to Confederate soldiers in a Madison cemetery has come down.
The stone cenotaph, inscribed with 140 names of prisoners-of-war, stood on an area known as Confederate Rest since 1906 — that is, until last week, when a crew from the Madison Parks Department and a local monument company transferred it from the Forest Hills Cemetery to storage at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum.
Madison City Council voted in October to remove the monument and place it in a museum. Logistics and weather delayed the transfer until now, said Eric Knepp, Madison parks superintendent.
"We waited on it to be nice and cold for the purposes of protecting the trees and the turf," said Knepp.
The crew removed the top two-thirds of the cenotaph, leaving a base, weighing nearly 4,000 pounds, in the ground. Knepp said the remaining base is unmarked, and removing it would have required permitting from the state.
Michael Telzrow, director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, said they accepted the monument for a specific reason.
"Based on its connection to Civil War history and, more importantly, the role in which some Wisconsin Union veterans played in raising money for the memorial, we accepted its acquisition," said Telzrow.
Telzrow said two Wisconsinites who fought with the Union’s Iron Brigade, Frank W. Oakley and Hugh Louis, assisted in fundraising and participated in the cenotaph’s unveiling.
The monument, then, is an artifact of reconciliation — a period in the late nineteenth century when white residents from the north and south diminished slavery to romanticize the war and come together.
Over the nearly year-long period when Madison residents and council members debated what to do about the now-removed monument, they dealt with complex questions of history, symbolism and preservation. Telzrow said museums have an important role to play here; they can preserve complicated materials while society grapples with their history.
"Rather than come out with a definitive declaration on what should be done and how we should do it, I think it’s prudent in this case — as much as they can be, if they are removed and they have historical value beyond a memorial to a particular cause — that they be preserved until we can come to an agreement about what their place is on the cultural landscape," said Telzrow.
The museum has no current plans to interpret or display the monument.
From most of what I’ve heard/read, Madison is pretty much Wisconsin’s sphincter.
What utility is this at all?
The Madison City Council has nothing better to do?
Perfect example of what’s wrong with government.
Sick, sick souls who could decide to do this.
It’s not a bad place. But, too many Insane white people live there.
Milwaukee not so nice.
Beyond me.
During the anti-Confederate monument hysteria back in 2017, by far the most petty, stupid story was the mayor of Madison, WI, removing like this little historical placard or whatever in a cemetery that simply explained that there are Confederate soldiers buried in this cemetery and why they - Southern soldiers - came to be buried in Wisconsin of all places (prisoners of war.)
It’s really pitiful and enraging what these Democrats do on these city councils in urban areas where they have all the power. God help us if they ever have such unchecked power federally.
South Africa Effect.
All the complainers would not likely be born.
They are revenging their own existence.
Democracy at work.
Why don’t they go after today’s slavers where they can make a difference for
people who are still breathing?
Erasing the history of this country, warts and all, is disgusting.
From most of what I’ve heard/read, Madison is pretty much Wisconsin’s sphincter.
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Madistan.
I wonder how they will feel when someone comes along and starts tearing down Union memorials because of their part to “romanticize the war and come together” ??? our generation? the next?
The Confederacy collapsed 133 years ago. If the people who lost their kin fighting that war were able to show some humanity and make a memorial to the dead of the other side, why can't the Snowflake SJW's show the same respect?
“The museum has no current plans to interpret or display the monument.”
Well isn’t that just ducky——they’ll put it in a closet
and forget about it.
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Sphincters are supposed to keep the crap in, Madistan is the source of much crap
Phoebe you are a smuck. The monument is to memorialize men who gave all for their cause. Union veterans understood what sacrifice meant and reached out in friendship to their erstwhile foes ‘Once our enemies now our guests until the trump of judgment is sounded. RIP fiend. This little ass can not begin to grasp that one.
File this under “desecrating a gravesite”. May those responsible have 100years of bad luck.
This is disgusting hate speech. F you Madison WI.
Around Richmond there are thousands of blue bellies buried. Maybe someone should remove all of those grave markers. Be a good idea. Two can play at this game.
The original burials in the cemetery were re-interments from Oakwood Cemetery and Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. Those re-interments were primarily of Federal Union soldiers who perished from the effects of wounds while prisoners of war in the Richmond area military hospitals. Federal dead from the prisoner of war cemetery at Belle Island Prison Camp in the James River were also re-interred here. Some of the dead intended for the Seven Pines National Cemetery and Cold Harbor National Cemetery were transferred to Richmond when those smaller burial grounds quickly reached their initial capacities from post-war burials and reburials of the dead from the battle of Seven Pines (also known as Fair Oaks) and the battle of Cold Harbor.
I guess that gives us free reign to remove all these Yankee memorials and monuments down here.
The cult is eradicating anything that is not tolerant.
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