“Some of you might be wondering, ‘Didn’t we go through this?’ Yes, we did, but we asked to have it done legally,” District 6 Alder Marsha Rummel says, acknowledging what Madison residents may be thinking Wednesday, as the City’s Common Council [once again] voted 16 to 2 on Tuesday to remove a Confederate grave marker […]
City Council Votes to Remove Confederate Monument from Forest Hill
On Tuesday, Madison’s city council voted to remove a gravestone marked with the names of 140 Confederate prisoners of war who died at Camp Randall during the Civil War. Proponents of the marker’s removal at Forest Hill cemetery say it represents a racist period of American history. Opponents on the other hand, say that the […]
Landmarks Commission to Make Recommendation on Confederate Monument
The Madison Landmarks Commission will make a recommendation on what should happen to a large monument in Forest Hills Cemetery tonight. The United Daughters of the Confederacy put the monument there in 1906, and it remembers confederate soldiers buried in a portion of the cemetery known as Confederate Rest. After many quiet years in the […]