North Alton Confederate Cemetery Monument (Alton, Illinois)
Confederate
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.
Monument type:
Obelisk
Artist:
Dedication Date:
1910-01-01
Address:
Madison
Illinois
United States
Inscription:
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
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Conception Date:
0008-01-01
Opening Date:
1910-01-24
Material:
Concrete,Granite
Size:
0m x 0m x 17.678400000000003m
Creator:
Van Amringe Granite Company
Cost / Value:
Erected by:
Van AMringe Granite Company
Funded by:
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Run by:
Indigenous Land
Illiniwek (Illinois Confederation)
Organization/Curator:
Data Sources:
“Wayback Machine.” Web.archive.org, web.archive.org/web/20160304074630/gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/200254.pdf. Accessed 15 Apr. 2024.
Allen, Lyman. The Graybeards: The Letters of Major Lyman Allen, of the 37th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, the “Graybeards”, Including the Diaries of Viola Baldwin His Step-Daughter. Google Books, Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop, 1998, books.google.co.uk/books?id=eOgmc04BjFgC&dq=he+Graybeards:+The+Letters+of+Major+Lyman+Allen. Accessed 15 Apr. 2024.
“Alton, Illinois - Civil War Era - Confederate Prison.” Web.archive.org, 16 Apr. 2015, web.archive.org/web/20150416043350/www.altonweb.com/history/civilwar/confed/#credits. Accessed 15 Apr. 2024.
“Confederate Cemetery Monument, a War Memorial.” Www.hmdb.org, www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=154167. Accessed 15 Apr. 2024.
“North Alton Confederate Cemetery Information Plaque” https://www.cem.va.gov/docs/wcag/history/signs/North-Alton-Confederate-Cemetery-IL-Interpretive-Sign.pdf. Accessed 15 Apr. 2024
Romo, Vanessa. “In Wake of Charlottesville, Federal Government Pays to Protect Confederate Cemeteries.” NPR, 16 Oct. 2018, www.npr.org/2018/10/16/658003387/in-wake-of-charlottesville-federal-government-pays-to-protect-confederate-cemete. Accessed 15 Apr. 2024.
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