Camp Randall

Camp Randall
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Camp Randall arch designed by Lew F. Porter
Location	Camp Randall Memorial Park, Madison, Wisconsin
Coordinates
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1865
NRHP Reference #	71000036
Added to NRHP	June 7, 1971

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. 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 a 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

Gallery

• 

  Memorial arch (1912)

• 

  Civil War cannon

• 

  Civil War cannon, plaque, and flagpole

• 

  Prisoner of war stockade under protective roof

Further reading

• Mattern, Carolyn J. Soldiers When They Go: The Story of Camp Randall, 1861-1865. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1968.

External links

• Historic images of Camp Randall
• Camp Randall Civil War Prison
• "100 years later, Camp Randall Civil War memorial stands tall"

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Camp Randall (Madison, Wisconsin).