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.
I’m so sorry! I meant to post that to someone else! (Probably Mr. Morose!)
TRUCE? *SMOOCH* :)
But you won't, and neither will the rest of this forum.
How 'bout you, badass cat owner? What are you gonna do about it, besides sit there castigating your fellow conservatives for not for ing up lynch mobs to go after leftists.
Do let us know when you're ready to lead the charge.
“...but I believe we are definitely in the last decade or two where there is a chance to turn it around.”
You nailed it. And so many FAIL to see that! :(
ROTFL
I was hoping you wouldn’t take me too seriously there.
We might have to eliminate state names and number them from
right to left/north to south to avoid offending anyone.
Thanks for posting I was going to post one in our state board . This only invites retaliation down south where WI union troops may be buried
Here is a posting about the VA policy on confederate gravesites
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3578182/posts
The Confederate and Union monuments, memorials, and cemeteries are there to remind us so that the Civil War can keep that name. Sadly, I suspect we are very close to officially renaming it “Civil War 1”. The next one will be much uglier. With no men of honor on the other side this time around, they will go to excess, and decent people will respond.
That's typical here. Cross "this" line and we'll respond. But no one, and I mean NO ONE, will say exactly what that line is.
Is this even legal?
Alinsky conveniently overlooked the reality that unlike in revolutionary Russia, his intended `class enemy’ targets here are armed and ready to bust a cap on his followers.
Obama’s gone. There will be no mass confiscations. Nutbag states like California and Connecticut may try but they are already withholding direct action in the interests of their LEOs’ safety.
This has gone beyond outrageous.
President Trump should hold some sort of summit, or go on national t.v. for a brief speech (of course, whatever he says will be dissected endlessly by the talking heads in the media. The man is a patriot but apparently can do nothing right.)
Yeah, you're just innocently sitting in the corner throwing cheap shots at anyone with a spine.
If you're not even willing to step to their level, leave it be, and consider your own courage, or lack thereof.
Left wing America is “hinting” at their own “French” Revolution.
There are similarities, the most important of which is the aggressive and militant motivation to eliminate any and all shadow of Christianity.
This is truly not about the elimination of art.
This is ultimately humanistic socialism vs. the root of where we came from as a nation, being corporately and genetically rooted in common law/Judeo Christian values/principles.
This is the real war being proactively brought to freedom loving conservatives.
And NO, they will not stop if we just continue to seek compromise with them, and try and get along peacefully.
An electorate and its representatives whose supreme goal is to subject all other segments of the electorate and their wealth to its will and control, can never coexist and get along with the segment which seeks the liberty of ALL!
One, socialism (theft/slavery), seeks subjection and confiscation to the control of supreme centralized government. The other seeks freedom from slavery, and true justice and defense and recourse of innocent people from those who rob the innocent of their freedom, belongings, and earned value.
As they have in the past, they are coming after what we believe, our history, and anything which lends itself to our continued liberty.
I firmly believe our own federal governments efforts to increase the influx of both illegal immigration, and legal Islamic immigration (and the related increase in terrorism) is itself, part of a strategy to increase the power of government, while clearly reducing the Constitutional protections responsible for our continued liberty.
The greater the terrorism, the more freedom we are willing to give up.
The greater the historically and economically illiterate and disloyal illegal immigration, the greater the losses of freedom and earned wealth at the ballot box!
Decades of evidence of this left wing socialist strategy have become tangible and deadly.
Would like to see President Trump call a press conference and show a video, with the Taliban blowing up the buddha statues split screen with the knuckleheads pulling down the statue in NC. He could simply ask “What’s the difference?” and walk out.
There is an element in America on the left that is obviously driving our nation towards serious anger and perhaps worse. I’m not sure what the ultimate motive is, but it might be anarchy or civil war, just as was done in Tsarist Russia to set up the Communist revolution. If this doesn’t get turned around it won’t be pretty.
What he is doing is evil. Removing a marker to young men who died in a horrible POW camp. What a POS.
Alinsky conveniently overlooked the reality that unlike in revolutionary Russia, his intended `class enemy’ targets here are armed and ready to bust a cap on his followers.
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Which is about the most stupid thing ever.
Brings on perfect Soros/Alinsky Chaos.
they should be “busting a cap” on the leaders of this movement.
OK, you’ve got a point. Identify, single out, in other words Alinskyize the Antifa leadership.
Then find out where they live & upload google streetviews of their homes. Address, phone #, email address.
Invite an IT onslaught. But they have to be made to fear that there are lots of patriots out there who would love to take them out.
Thank you! *BUMP*
And Watermelon Seed Spitting (Pardeeville, I think?) and Cow Chip Flinging? LOL! Is Wisconsin a Great State, or WHAT?
“Haven’t posted a lutefisk thread in years.”
“Take the Lutefisk, Leave the Lefse!”
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