Camp Randall is a historic U.S. Army site in Madison, Wisconsin, named after Wisconsin Governor Alexander Randall.
History[]
It was a training facility of the Union Army during the Civil War, with more than 70,000 recruits receiving training there. Later, a hospital and a stockade for Confederate prisoners of war were located at the camp.[1] The site was purchased by the state of Wisconsin in 1893 and deeded to the University of Wisconsin. Of the original 53½ acres, a segment was set aside as Camp Randall Park, which now features a memorial arch, two Civil War cannons, and a stockade building.
Camp Randall Park is also the location of Camp Randall Stadium, the outdoor football stadium of the University of Wisconsin, opened in 1917.
Camp Randall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
Camp Randall during the Civil War. Sketch made from top of University Building, May 20, 1864, by W. F. Brown, Company B, 40th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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References[]
- ↑ "Camp Randall". Dictionary of Wisconsin History. Wisconsin Historical Society. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=85&search_term=camp+randall. Retrieved 2009-10-24.
Further reading[]
- Cooke, Chauncey H. "Documents: Letters of a Badger Boy in Blue: Life at Old Camp Randall". Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 4, no. 2 (December 1920): 208-217.
- Forbes, S. D. Camp Randall and Environs. Madison Wis.: 1890.
- Mattern, Carolyn J. Soldiers When They Go: The Story of Camp Randall, 1861-1865. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1968.
- Thompson, Tommy R. "'Dying Like Rotten Sheepe': Camp Randall as a Prisoner of War Facility during the Civil War". Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 92, no. 1 (Autumn 2008): 2-13.
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- Camp Randall Prison Camp
- Confederate Prisoners at Camp Randall as Seen in Newspaper Articles, Wisconsin Historical Society
- Camp Randall to welcome home its Civil War soldiers, Wisconsin State Journal
- "100 years later, Camp Randall Civil War memorial stands tall", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- "Confederate captives in Madison: Camp Randall’s history as Civil War prisoner-of-war camp", The Badger Herald
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