Well, it's snowing today in Chapel Hill — coming down like I haven't ever seen before south of the Mason-Dixon line in the, geeze, I guess more than 20 years I've lived in the south. So as I sit here looking out my office window at what looks like a scene from a Currier and Ives print I thought I'd post a Civil War monument trivia question from the North. Digging deep into my stock of photographs here. Where is this?
Civil War Monument Trivia
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Camp Randall Memorial Arch at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The bird atop the arch is Old Abe, "The War Eagle".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Abe
Umm – about a quarter mile from my office…. 🙂
Well, that didn't take long, did it?! Yes–it's the monument to Camp Randall. (Which, as I learned when I visited Madison is also the name of the football stadium, no?) I didn't know the eagle had a name.
This combines two of my favorite topics — monuments and universities.
Go Badgers!