Posted on 10/04/2018 3:55:06 PM PDT by NRx
...Well. In Madison, Wisconsin, the city council has voted overwhelmingly to remove a cemetery marker noting the names of about 140 Confederates, most of whom died in a prisoner of war camp in the town. More:
You dont have discussion in a cemetery. You have reflection, and you have memories, and this (monument) brings up memories that are not so pleasant in our history, said Council Vice President Sheri Carter.
These are Americans who died as prisoners of war. They die off like rotten sheep, said a Union soldier who worked at the camp, where conditions were bad. The monument is a tombstone large enough to feature the names of each of the dead. This is not a statue of a Confederate war hero. It is simply a grave marker noting the names of POWs who died far from home.
There is no longer equality before God of the fallen, not in Madison, Wisconsin. The city council spits on these dead men, who passed away not in combat, but in Union custody.
the left wants a civil war. Can’t have one with a lot of memorials commemorating the dead and the heroes from the previous
A country ignorant of their history is destined to repeat it. The goal of the left is a “French Revolution” here in the USA
Observe the perp. I have no use for these people. I do not wish them well. I hope they get the people's justice they deserve.
They do not deserve the honor to recognize such men.
These iconoclasts want to destroy OUR HISTORY
AND HERITAGE so the ignotsnt robots they produce they generate have ABSOLUTELY NO historical reminders which MIGHT generate interest in our origins.
They were captured down South (after the taking of Island #10 near Memphis) in 1862, and brought to Madison as prisoners. They were kept at Camp Randall, the Wisconsin Badgers’ stadium. They died and were buried there, ironically, with honor by their captors. Later, the monument was erected to memorialize their names. They didn’t want to go to Madison in the first place, and it is now very insulting to their dignity to be buried there now among such louts now. Rather than insult them, dig them up and take them home.
Andersonville,Andersonville!
Madison is mainly white, liberal and disgusting.
The Federal government shold start declaring these monuments federal historical sites.
Many of those in Madison who hate and slander the Confederate dead are the descendants of persons who were not even in the US at the time of the so-called Civil War. They have no skin in thee game. The rest of the haters are just indoctrinated ignoramuses.
This is plain evil.
Unless I misunderstand what your post says...
I would like to say to you: FUATHTYRIO.
If I did misunderstand your post, then I humbly apologize.
Madison: 35 square miles surrounded by reality.
If anyone has read MacKinlay Kantor's "Andersonville" or histories of any of the Civil War prisons North or South, the descriptions of same are horrible. If those spirits are still around, I am quite sure they want 'out' of those loathsome places.
So it was not enough that these POWs were murdered in a federal death camp, but now even their names must be obliterated according to the Leftists.
“I am in no way shape manner or form a Confederate sympathizer.”
Well, let’s turn the virtue signalling to 11 then.
I don’t believe in erasing history be it good or bad. I do believe that anyone that does want to erase history is a dangerous person.
Hitler wouldn’t allow a monument to gassed Jews either.
Ah, the democrat socialist/communists of Madison, Wisconsin follow their “Father Stalin’s” methods of erasing history.
They already have a monument to the Commie Abraham Lincoln Brigade of the Spanish Civil War.
Camp Douglas, Camp Douglas!
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