Camp Randall Memorial Arch (Madison, Wisconsin)
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The Camp Randall Memorial Arch is a 30 foot tall granite arch at Camp Randall Memorial Park. The arch stands where the old gate to Camp Randall stood. Camp Randall was a civil war training camp and, briefly, a prisoner of war camp. The top of the arch Is adorned with a statue of Old Abe, a bald eagle who went into battle with Wisconsin's 8th Volunteer Infantry. On the left side of the arch stands the statue of a soldier with the years 1861 - 1865. This statue represents the recruits who were trained at Camp Randall. On the right side of the arch stands a statue of a veteran with the year 1912 Inscribed below. This statue commemorates the veterans who returned to the site of Camp Randall for the dedication of the arch.
Monument type:
Memorial arch
Artist:
Lew F Porter
Dedication Date:
1912-06-19
Address:
Madison
Wisconsin
Dane
Inscription:
Erected by
the
STATE OF WISCONSIN
to mark the entrance
through which passed
seventy thousand of
her soldier sons and
five hundred thousand
relatives and friends
during the war from
1861 to 1865
"Lest we forget"
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Conception Date:
1911-01-01
Opening Date:
1912-04-30
Material:
Bronze,Granite
Size:
0m x 9.144m x 9.144m
Creator:
Colonel J.A. Watrous, Colonel C. E. Warner, and W. J. McKay
Cost / Value:
$25,000
Erected by:
State of Wisconsin Legislature
Funded by:
State of Wisconsin Legislature
Run by:
University of Madison Wisconsin
Indigenous Land
Ho-Chunk
Organization/Curator:
Data Sources:
Rood, Hosea W. Camp Randall memorial arch, dedicated June 18-19. [Madison? Wis., n.p, 1912] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
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