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Confederate Burial Monument, Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin
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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 Confederacy.
1950
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Confederate Graves at Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin
1945
Confederate graves in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
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 Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin
April 23, 1972
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.
Graves with Flags in Confederate Rest at Forest Hill Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin
1980
Confederate Graves at Forest Hill Cemetery. Each headstone has a Confederate flag stuck in the earth next to it.
Forest Hill Cemetery
1961
Confederate Rest at the Forest Hill Cemetery, showing graves of Confederate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1862. The grave in the foreground is of Mrs. Alice Whiti...
