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Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin
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Plot in the Forest Hill Cemetery at 1 Speedway Road in which 105 Confederate soldiers are buried. They died while confined in Madison's Camp Randall during the Civil War.
April 23, 1972
Potter, James T.
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Mausoleum Stained-Glass Window
May 21, 1972
A stained-glass window in the mausoleum at Forest Hill Cemetery at 1 Speedway Road, with a design featuring upside-down torches (a symbol of death).
Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin
1961
A Confederate Rest at the Forest Hill Cemetery, with graves of Confederate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1862.
Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery
1950
Burial plot at Forest Hill Cemetery, where 140 Confederate prisoners of war were interred after perishing at Camp Randall military prison during the spring of 1862.
Confederate Burial Monument, Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin
1950
A monument to dead Confederate soldiers and Mrs. Alice W. Waterman at the entrance to "Confederate Rest" in the Forest Hill Cemetery. This monument was erected by the United Daughters of the Confe...
Confederate Graves at Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin
1945
Confederate graves in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
Forest Hill Cemetery Mausoleum
May 4, 1975
An addition with a honeycomb look to a mausoleum at Forest hill Cemetery.
