| Confederate Rest | |
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 Confederate Rest in 2017 | |
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| Details | |
| Location | |
| Type | Confederate POW graveyard |
| No. of graves | 140 |
Confederate Rest, in Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin, is the northernmost Confederate graveyard in the nation. [1] 140 Confederate prisoners of war who died under Union captivity lie in it.
“They die off like rotten sheep. There was 11 die off yesterday and today, and there ain’t a day but what there is from two to nine dies.”
— Private Paddock, of the 19th Wisconsin Regiment [2]
Following the Battle of Island Number Ten, about 1400 Confederate soldiers who surrendered there, many from the 1st Regiment Alabama Infantry, were taken at the end of April, 1862, to the Union training field Camp Randall in Madison, Wisconsin, which was found to be unsuitable, [3] resulting in the deaths of 140 prisoners before the remaining survivors were sent to Camp Douglas (Chicago) at the end of May 1862. [4]
The dead prisoners were interred in a mass grave. In the early years, Alice Waterman, a Madison resident who lived near the cemetery, cared for the burial grounds using her own funds. [5] Later, each deceased was given his own tombstone. [6]
In January 2019, after a year-long debate, a stone cenotaph etched with the names of the 140 Confederate prisoners of war was removed from the cemetery by the Madison Parks Department and transferred to storage at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. [7]
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Some of the individual headstones of the Southern soldiers who died here are so worn they are unreadable. So the 4-foot stone monument helps identify who is buried at the "Confederate Rest," the northernmost Confederate graveyard in the nation.
A Private Paddock of the 19th Wisconsin Regiment wrote to his family regarding these deaths: "They die off like rotten sheep. There was 11 die off yesterday and today, and there ain't a day but what there is from two to nine dies."
U.S. Army officials deemed camp conditions unsuitable
the camp hospital appeared unable to handle the sick Confederate patients. Due to the results of the inspection, the prisoners were transferred to Camp Douglas, Chicago, on the last day of May
Mrs. Alice Waterman, of Madison, Wis., who had from her private means cared for the graves of a large number of Confederate soldiers buried near her home
Most of the 140 prisoners who died at Camp Randall and are buried at Confederate Rest were likely sick when they arrived in Madison [...] The soldiers were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery and later given their own headstones in Confederate Rest