Tag: Daughters of the Confederacy
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Two Union veterans unveiled the Confederates Rest cenotaph
David Muskat over at Historic Madison has uncovered the newspaper story advancing the June 15, 1906 unveiling of the cenotaph (or monument) at Confederate Rest. You will note that two Union veterans unveiled the cenotaph, Captain Hugh Lewis (whom we know lost an arm in the Civil War) and Captain Frank W. Oakley. The guardian angel of…
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Veteran of Wisconsin’s Iron Brigade asked former Confederates to fund monument at Forest Hills
After the death of Alice Whiting Waterman in 1897, Madison resident Hugh M. Lewis, who had been a captain in Company A of Wisconsin’s famed Iron Brigade, appealed to his Southern counterparts in Washington D.C., to raise money for a lasting memorial to the selfless lady and “her boys,” the southern soldiers who died as…
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Madison alders erase history
Madison should rename Wilson Street For 112 years, a large stone monument has stood at the entrance to Confederates Rest, in Madison’s Forest Hill Cemetery. In its long history, the stone was garlanded by aging survivors of the horrors of the Civil War — Union soldiers who saw the fighting first-hand and knew they fought…