Camp Randall, Wisconsin

Camp Randall was a former training camp in Madison, Wisconsin for many of the units sent off to the fronts. For a time early in the war, it also housed Confederate prisoners of war captured on the Mississippi River.

Origins

• Land originally owned by the Wisconsin Agricultural Society
• Renamed in honor of Governor Alexander Randall

Units Raised at Camp Randall

• 2nd Wisconsin Infantry

Sources

• Herdegan, IBiCWaM, 11
• Soldiers When They Go: The Story of Camp Randall, 1861-1865 by Carolyn J. Mattern