The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Civil War Sites in Wisconsin-- Part 3

SOLDIERS' MONUMENT IN FOUNTAIN PARK in Sheboygan (not just all brats).  Erected in 1889 in downtown's Fountain Park, one of the tallest monuments in the state at 46-feet high and weighs 80 tons.

CONFEDERATE SPY GRAVE in Wisconsin Dells.  Belle Boyd is buried at Spring grove Cemetery.  After the war, she made a living traveling across the United States and telling her wartime story.  She died in 1900 in the Wisconsin Dells.  The concrete slab consists of rocks from each Confederate state.

Another famous Confederate female spy, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, is buried in Wilmington, N.C..

--Old Secesh

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