Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin) (English Wikipedia)
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- City of Madison Parks: Forest Hill Cemetery
- "Forest Hill Cemetery Native American Mound Group". Play Madison Parks: Historical Features. City of Madison. Retrieved January 9, 2016.
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- "Haugen, Nils Pederson". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- "McDill, Alexander Stuart". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- "Nelson, John Mandt". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- "Sauthoff, Harry". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- "Spooner, John Coit". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- "Vilas, William Freeman". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- "Whittlesey, Thomas Tucker". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
madison.com
- "Advice for Confederate sign: Condemn the sin, if not the long-gone sinners". Wisconsin State Journal. April 9, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
Historian Carolyn Mattern notes in her 1981 history of Civil War-era Camp Randall, "Soldiers When They Go," that "many prisoners had received poor treatment in transit, and although conditions were much improved at Camp Randall, a high rate of mortality prevailed."
- Abigail Becker (April 11, 2018). "Madison City Council votes to remove Confederate marker rather than add an interpretive sign". The Cap Times. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
In April 1862, about 1,200 captured Confederate soldiers were moved to the Union Army stockade at Camp Randall. Though the majority of prisoners were relocated later that year, 140 soldiers died in Madison.
- Rickert, Chris (May 5, 2018). "Removal of Confederate graveyard monument requires more than city council's OK". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
the monument featuring 132 of the names of the Confederate soldiers buried in the Confederate Rest
- Wroge, Logan (August 28, 2018). "Madison commission rejects request to remove Confederate monument in Forest Hill Cemetery". Retrieved October 8, 2018.
"We can move it, but personally to me as someone who is interested in telling history on the basis of physical things, that changes what histories people can tell in the future," said commission member Anna Andrzejewski, adding that she views the stone as a "historic communal marker" and not a monument.
- Wroge, Logan (October 3, 2018). "Madison City Council overturns Confederate monument decision, supports removal". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
"You don't have discussion in a cemetery. You have reflection, and you have memories, and this (monument) brings up memories that are not so pleasant in our history," said Council Vice President Sheri Carter.
- Wroge, Logan (July 23, 2018). "Madison commission punts on whether to remove Confederate monument". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
Rummel said getting rid of the monument installed in 1906 [...] is not about disregarding history, but is a small act of reparation.
- Wroge, Logan (April 11, 2018). "Madison City Council votes to remove Confederate monument at Forest Hill Cemetery". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
the council decided to go in the direction of the Equal Opportunities Commission, which had recommended removing the cenotaph
- Novak, Bill (June 18, 2018). "Don't remove Confederate monument, Dane County Historical Society says". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
Despite being born in states which seceded from the Union, the names of those soldiers should not be removed or hidden," the letter says. "They (the Confederate soldiers) should not be forgotten, as those men lived and died and were interred in Madison.
- Editorial Board Wisconsin State Journal (August 29, 2018). "Landmarks Commission right to keep Confederate marker in Madison". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
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.
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- "Forest Hill Cemetery Dane County, Wisconsin)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- "Forest Hill Cemetery Soldiers' Lot". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
newspapers.com
- "T. W. Brazeau, Veteran Local Attorney, Dies". Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune. October 13, 1965. p. 1. Retrieved July 3, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
politicalgraveyard.com
- "The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Pink to Pittoni". politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved June 25, 2021.