North Alton Confederate Cemetery Monument (Alton, Illinois)

North Alton Confederate Cemetery Monument (Alton, Illinois)

Funded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and erected In 1909, the North Alton Confederate Cemetery Monument Is a 58 foot tall granite obelisk inscribed with the names of the 1,534 confederate soldiers at the concrete base. These soldiers died while being held in Alton Military Prison due to harsh conditions and outbreaks of rubella and smallpox.

Van Amringe Granite Company

1910-01-24

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North Alton Confederate Cemetery Monument (Alton, Illinois)

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Obelisk

Van AMringe Granite Company

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Concrete,Granite

Erected by the United States to mark the burial place of 1354 Confederate Soldiers who died here and at the Smallpox Hospital on the adjacent island while prisoners of war and whose graves cannot now be identified

Department of Veterans Affairs

Illinois

Madison

Confederate

Illiniwek (Illinois Confederation)

Alton

Cemetery