Tag: Grand Army of the Republic

  • 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 —…