From August 14, 2009, Yahoo! Voices "The Northernmost Confederate Cemetery in the United States: Madison, Wisconsin" by Mark Hudziak.
When the captured men of the 1st Alabama started arriving from Island No. 10, curious Madison townspeople turned out at the train station to see the "enemy soldiers." They arrived April 20th and April 24th. The first arrivals were in relatively good shape, but not so the second group. The first group marched to their prison at Camp Randall, but many of the second group had to be carried there on stretchers.
Island No. 10 may have been a very strategic place, but it was unhealthy to defend because of disease and water. Its defenders often had to stand in knee-deep water in the coll days of March and April.. There was also inadequate food and very little medicine.
They arrived suffering from pneumonia, mumps and chronic diarrhea.
--Old Secesh
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