Tag: Confederate Rest
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Madison Ald. Matt Phair: ‘Whatever’
Ald. Phair’s virtue is far superior to the one-armed veterans of the Union cause who shed blood so that all Americans could be free A Madison citizen e-mailed Ald. Matt Phair, urging that the memorial stone to the Madison woman who cared for the graves at Confederate Rest cemetery not be removed. The following exchange of e-mails captures…
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Confederate Rest memorial stone meant to heal wounds of Civil War
The band played ‘Dixie’ as Confederate POWs were marched to Camp Randall What a spectacle it must have been that Sunday, April 20, 1862! The Civil War had been raging for a full year, Wisconsin boys had mustered out of Camp Randall on the western edge of the village of Madison, population 6,611, leaving its bunkhouses —…
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‘A dark and buried chapter’ of history revived at Confederates Rest
The great American tragedy is that half of what Grant gained at Appomattox was lost when he left office in 1877. Perhaps not even Lincoln could have reconciled Southern whites with their former slaves In the midst of Gorbachev’s glasnost, Russians would say, “never before has our history been so unpredictable.” Never mind fake news, fear…