Camp Randall Memorial Arch (Madison, Wisconsin)

Camp Randall Memorial Arch (Madison, Wisconsin)

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.

Colonel J.A. Watrous, Colonel C. E. Warner, and W. J. McKay

1912-04-30

Jack_Kornowske

English

Site

2469

1911-01-01

1912-06-19

0m x 9.144m x 9.144m

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Camp Randall Memorial Arch (Madison, Wisconsin)

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Memorial arch

State of Wisconsin Legislature

State of Wisconsin Legislature

University of Madison Wisconsin

Bronze,Granite

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" MDCCCCXII

University of Madison Wisconsin

$25,000

Wisconsin

Union

Ho-Chunk

Madison

Park