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Mrs. Alice Waterman, of Madison, Wis., who had from her private means cared for the graves of a large number of Confederate soldiers buried near her home
A Private Paddock of the 19th Wisconsin Regiment wrote to his family regarding these deaths: "They die off like rotten sheep. There was 11 die off yesterday and today, and there ain't a day but what there is from two to nine dies."
U.S. Army officials deemed camp conditions unsuitable
Some of the individual headstones of the Southern soldiers who died here are so worn they are unreadable. So the 4-foot stone monument helps identify who is buried at the "Confederate Rest," the northernmost Confederate graveyard in the nation.
Most of the 140 prisoners who died at Camp Randall and are buried at Confederate Rest were likely sick when they arrived in Madison [...] The soldiers were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery and later given their own headstones in Confederate Rest
the camp hospital appeared unable to handle the sick Confederate patients. Due to the results of the inspection, the prisoners were transferred to Camp Douglas, Chicago, on the last day of May
