Memorial Day 2011 - Thousands of Confederate Dead Buried In Chicago from...

Uploaded by dogstar7 on May 25, 2011

"The Confederate dead here buried in concentric trenches were all private soldiers.

The monument to their memory is of Georgia granite, stands forty feet from the ground to the top of statue and was erected in July 1893 with funds mainly subscribed by liberal citizens of Chicago and camps of the United Confederate Veterans.

The bronze panels of the pedestal die represent:
On the East face - THE CALL TO ARMS;
On the West face - A VETERAN'S RETURN HOME;
And On the South face - A SOLDIER'S DEATH DREAM;

The bronze statue surmounting the battlemented cap of the column is a realistic representation of a Confederate infantry soldier after the surrender. The face expresses sorrow for the thousands of prison dead interred beneath.

The cannon, shot and shell ornamenting this Government lot in which both Union and Confederate dead are buried were purchased by the War Department under authority of an Act of Congress approved January 25th 1893. "

http://graveyards.com/IL/Cook/oakwoods/confederate-names/
This directory contains photographs of the sixteen bronze tablets on the base of the Oak Woods monument. Every soldier known to be here is listed on them (though there are an unknown number of unknown Confederate soldiers buried here as well).