Civil War Sites in Wisconsin-- Part 2

Also in Madison is the northernmost Civil War cemetery at Forest Hill.  In 1862, Confederates from the 1st Alabama were captured at Island No. 10, near Cairo, Illinois, and sent as prisoners to Camp Randall.  About 120 died there and were buried in a plot that became known as Confederate Rest at Madison's Forest Hill Cemetery.  They are just a short distance from the Union burial ground at that place.

In April 1862, over 1000 members of the regiment arrived at Camp Randall and over the next two months, 140 died.  One was shot by a guard, but the others died of disease.

There is also a Forest Hill Soldiers' Lot at the cemetery where 240 Union dead are buried, most of whom died in the city hospitals during the war.  there are also veterans of the Spanish-American War and World War I buried there..  The federal government acquired this plot of land in 1886.

--Old Secesh