Camp Butler National Cemetery
Camp Butler National Cemetery
Wreaths Across America - December 10, 2011
Veterans Day at Camp Butler in Springfield, Illinois
Illinois Stories | Camp Butler
This venerable national cemetery has a long history as a training camp, prisoner of war camp and cemetery. We learn about its many roles and operations.
Echo Taps, Camp Butler National Cemetery, January 23, 2017
Top Tourist Attractions in Springfield: Travel Guide State Illinois
Top Tourist Attractions in Springfield: Travel Guide State Illinois
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Dana-Thomas House, Lincoln Tomb & War Memorials, Illinois State Capitol, Old State Capitol State Historic Site, Illinois State Museum, Camp Butler National Cemetery, Edwards Place Historic Home, Lincoln Memorial Garden, Illinois State Military Museum, Henson Robinson Zoo, Washington Park Botanical Gardens
Lincoln Funeral Procession [complete] Re-enactment GoPro Video, Springfield, Illinois, May 3, 2015
Union Civil War re-enactors march in President Lincoln funeral re-enactment in Springfield, Illinois on May 3, 2015. This is the complete record of all the units that marched in the funeral parade to Oak Ridge Cemetery.
MUSIC: Civil War Era Funeral Marches & Dirges:
Funeral March (composer unknown)
Dead March in Saul by George Frideric Handel, HWV 53
Old One-Hundredth Doxology by Loys Bourgeois, Genevan Psalter
Abide with Me by William Henry Monk, hymn tune Eventide
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* CAMERA VANTAGE POINT: At 8th and Cook Streets, Springfield, Illinois — where the funeral procession turned west onto Cook marching towards the 4th Street turn north to Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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* EVENT: President Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession and Dead March” through the city streets of Springfield, Illinois to the receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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* DATE: Sunday, May 3, 2015
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* START TIME: Noon
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* LENGTH of the PROCESSION: More than a quarter mile-plus
* PASSING TIME: About 10 minutes (avg.)
* MARCH PACE: 80 steps per minute (avg.)
* PROCESSION SPEED: 2.1 mph
* DISTANCED MARCHED: 3.2 miles from the OSCB to the receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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* PROCESSION PARTICIPANTS: 1,200 Union Army reenactors from around the United States, bands and representative mourners.
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* COMPONENTS of the LINCOLN
FUNERAL PROCESSION
RE-ENACTMENT of MAY 3, 2015:
— Portrayers of Gen. U.S. Grant and Civil War generals * The 5th Michigan Regiment Band (leading) portrayed the U.S. Marine President Lincoln's Own band in red coats * Civil War field band drummers * More than 1,000-plus Union Army re-enactors * A completely detailed replica (to scale) of President Lincoln's coffin constructed by the Batesville Casket Company and Brooks Brothers * The P.J. Staab family's complete reconstruction of Lincoln's black and gold hearse (topped with eight large black plumes) drawn by six plumed and blanketed black horses * 12 direct descendants of the original white sashed pallbearers walking along side the hearse * Following the hearse were six members of the 8th Veterans Reserve Corps (actual coffin bearers) in light blue Union Army uniforms * A black horse representing Old Bob — President Lincoln's personal mount cloaked with a black, white fringed, mourning blanket * Various carriages carrying representative mourners and speakers participating in the Oak Ridge Cemetery funeral * The Springfield Fire Department (who participated in 1865) following a vintage horse-drawn fire wagon * People in 1865 era attire followed the procession.
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* DESTINATION: Starting at the Old State Capitol building and concluding at the actual 1865 Lincoln receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
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* FUNERAL PROCESSION ROUTE:
— OSCB on South 6th St. (1 block)
— East Adams St. (1 block)
— South 7th St. (2 blocks)
— East Capitol Ave. (1 block)
— South 8th St. passing Lincoln Home (3 blocks)
— East Cook St. (4 blocks)
— 4th St. moving north (15 blocks)
— North Grand Ave. East (1 block)
— North 3rd St. through the Lincoln Park neighborhood (5 blocks)
— East Black Ave. (2 blocks)
— Through the old Oak Ridge Cemetery 1st Street gate (rebuilt)
* The above information compiled by William Castronuovo
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* This video is PART III of a documentary series Lincoln: From Ford's to Oak Ridge 2015 by William Castronuovo covering the funeral reenactments from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois during the months of April and May 2015.
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* The Springfield recreation of President Lincoln's funeral in that city was the largest reenactment in the country of the many that were held during April and May 2015.
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* HOW THE MOVIE WAS MADE: This video was recorded from the corner of 8th and Cook Streets in downtown Springfield, Illinois (where the procession turned west) using a GoPro Hero4 Black camera (video mode at 29.97fps) on a three camera rig attached to a MeFoto tripod. A polarizing filter lens was used. The audio was recorded in four-track stereo; one shotgun mic was used for distance audio. REGRET: One of the wind muff/dead cat covers was lost in transit causing the occasional wind noise being captured. Post production was done using GoPro Studio, Final Cut Pro, Audacity (audio correction) and iSkysoft iMedia Converter (deluxe).
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* DISCLAIMER: This video motion picture was independently produced and has no association whatsoever with the Lincoln Funeral Coalition, The Lincoln Train organization, the city of Springfield, Illinois, nor any participants in or associated with the three day Lincoln funeral re-enactment of May 1-3, 2015.
Copyright © 2015 by William Castronuovo.
All rights reserved.
Lincoln's Tomb - Taps
Taps at Lincoln's tomb on June 15, 2010.
Leonard Surina USAF
Military Funeral Honors Ceremony for Leonard Surina 12/26/2017, Camp Butler National Cemetary, Springfield Illinois
Veteran Cemetery Profiles: National Cemetery of the Pacific
In this Cemetery Profile interview, Jim Horton, the Cemetery Director presents the National Memorial Cemetery. The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific is a national cemetery located at Punchbowl Crater in Honolulu, Hawaii. It serves as a memorial to honor those men and women who served in the United States Armed Forces and those who have given their lives in doing so.
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The Mystery of Edwards Place
Erika Holst, curator of collections for the Springfield Art Association, unravels the mystery of when and how the Edwards family mansion was built.
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The Warren County Historical Museum houses some interesting artifacts from the areas history including pieces actually manufactured in the area. The rich history of this beautiful area comes alive in this episode of Illinois Stories.
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Ceremony honors Vietnam veterans
Camp Butler event honors Vietnam vets
John C. Frémont | Wikipedia audio article
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John C. Frémont
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John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, when he led five expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder.During the Mexican–American War, Frémont, a major in the U.S. Army, took control of California from the California Republic in 1846. Frémont was convicted in court-martial for mutiny and insubordination over a conflict of who was the rightful military governor of California. After his sentence was commuted and he was reinstated by President Polk, Frémont resigned from the Army. Frémont led a private fourth expedition, which cost ten lives, seeking a rail route over the mountains around the 38th parallel in the winter of 1849. Afterwards, Frémont settled in California at Monterey while buying cheap land in the Sierra foothills. When gold was found on his Mariposa ranch, Frémont became a wealthy man during the California Gold Rush, but he was soon bogged down with lawsuits over land claims, between the dispossession of various land owners during the Mexican–American War and the explosion of Forty-Niners immigrating during the Rush. These cases were settled by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing Frémont to keep his property. Frémont's fifth and final privately funded expedition, between 1853 and 1854, surveyed a route for a transcontinental railroad. Frémont became one of the first two U.S. senators elected from the new state of California in 1850. Frémont was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party, carrying most of the North. He lost the 1856 presidential election to Democrat James Buchanan when Know Nothings split the vote. Democrats warned that his election would lead to civil war.During the American Civil War, he was given command of Department of the West by President Abraham Lincoln. Although Frémont had successes during his brief tenure as Commander of the Western Armies, he ran his department autocratically, and made hasty decisions without consulting Washington D.C. or President Lincoln. After Frémont's emancipation edict that freed slaves in his district, he was relieved of his command by President Lincoln for insubordination. In 1861, Frémont was the first commanding Union general who recognized in Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant an iron will to fight and promoted him commander at the strategic base near Cairo, Illinois. Defeating the Confederates at Springfield, Frémont was the only Union General in the West to have a Union victory for 1861. After a brief service tenure in the Mountain Department in 1862, Frémont resided in New York, retiring from the Army in 1864. The same year Frémont was a presidential candidate for the Radical Democracy Party, but he resigned before the election. After the Civil War, Frémont's wealth declined after investing heavily and purchasing an unsuccessful Pacific Railroad in 1866, and lost much of his wealth during the Panic of 1873. Frémont served as Governor of Arizona from 1878 to 1881 appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes. Frémont retired from politics and died destitute in New York City in 1890.
Historians portray Frémont as controversial, impetuous, and contradictory. Some scholars regard him as a military hero of significant accomplishment, while others view him as a failure who repeatedly defeated his own best purposes. The keys to Frémont's character and personality may lie in his being born illegitimately, his ambitious drive for success, self-justification, and passive-aggressive behavior. Frémont's published reports and maps produced from his explorations significantly contributed to massive American emigration overland into the West starting in the 1840s. In June 1846 ...
Springfield, Illinois | Wikipedia audio article
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Springfield, Illinois
00:02:08 1 History
00:03:51 1.1 Lincoln
00:03:59 1.1.1 Lincoln and politics
00:05:39 1.1.2 Population
00:07:20 1.1.3 Business
00:07:56 1.1.4 Religion
00:08:51 1.2 Civil War to 1900
00:10:21 1.3 20th century
00:10:30 1.3.1 Utopia
00:12:02 1.3.2 1908 race riot
00:13:02 1.4 21st century
00:13:40 2 Geography
00:14:31 2.1 Topography
00:17:03 2.2 Climate
00:19:17 3 Demographics
00:22:48 4 Cityscape
00:24:52 5 Culture
00:26:28 5.1 Literary tradition
00:27:12 5.2 Performing arts
00:28:16 5.3 Festivals
00:28:44 5.4 Tourism
00:31:55 5.5 Sports
00:35:10 5.6 Media
00:36:51 5.7 NOAA Weather Radio
00:37:52 6 Economy
00:39:30 6.1 Largest employers
00:39:46 7 Law and government
00:40:59 7.1 State government
00:43:27 7.2 Township
00:44:12 8 Education
00:46:09 9 Infrastructure
00:46:18 9.1 Health systems
00:47:20 9.2 Parks
00:48:51 9.3 Public utilities
00:49:24 9.4 Transportation
00:52:46 10 Notable people
00:52:55 11 Sister cities
00:53:23 12 See also
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Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County. The city's population of 116,250 as of the 2010 U.S. Census makes it the state's sixth most populous city. It is the largest city in central Illinois. As of 2013, the city's population was estimated to have increased to 117,006, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The capital is centrally located within the state. The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government entities include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
Paying respects to Staff Sgt. Josh Powell
Staff Sgt. Josh Powell never sought a hero's welcome, but that's exactly what he received as his funeral procession slowly made its way to Camp Butler National Cemetery Tuesday.
Funeral Service for Joe Boerio
Full Military Funeral and Farewell for husband, father, grand father and great grandfather Joe Boerio. July, 2010. Camp Butler Cemetery. Rest in Peace PaPa.
Illinois in the American Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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Illinois in the American Civil War
00:03:01 1 History
00:05:15 2 Union Homefront support
00:06:40 3 War politics
00:08:24 4 Confederate Homefront support
00:08:34 4.1 Copperheads
00:10:13 5 Notable leaders from Illinois
00:11:36 6 See also
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The U.S. state of Illinois during the American Civil War was a major source of troops for the Union Army (particularly for those armies serving in the Western Theater of the Civil War), and of military supplies, food, and clothing. Situated near major rivers and railroads, Illinois became a major jumping off place early in the war for Ulysses S. Grant's efforts to seize control of the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers. Statewide, public support for the Union was high despite Copperhead sentiment.
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total manpower in Federal military service. Illinois troops predominantly fought in the Western Theater, although a few regiments played important roles in the East, particularly in the Army of the Potomac. Several thousand Illinoisians were killed or died of their wounds during the war, and a number of national cemeteries were established in Illinois to bury their remains.
Besides President Abraham Lincoln, a number of other Illinois men became prominent in the army or in national politics, including Ulysses S. Grant (a resident when the war started), John M. Schofield and John A. Logan. No major battles were fought in the state, although several river towns became sites for important supply depots and brownwater navy yards. Several prisoner of war camps and prisons dotted the state after 1863, processing thousands of captive Confederate soldiers.
However, not everyone in the state supported the war. In fact, there were even calls for secession in Southern Illinois or Little Egypt by several residents. In Marion residents voted to secede from the United States. A few, even, volunteered for the Confederate States Army in Tennessee. Thirty-four men, while Frank Metcalf claimed they were forty-five, from the southern tip of the state, were recruited from Jackson and Williamson County, joined Company G, The Illinois Company, of the 15th Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry. This can be attributed to the region's close cultural and economic ties to the South since many Southerners had migrated there. However, the movement for secession soon fizzled after the proposal was blocked and shelved.
Eighteen counties of southern Illinois formed the congressional district of Democrat John A. Logan. Rumors abounded in early 1861 whether he would organize his supporters and join the Confederacy. In fact he was suppressing pro-Confederate elements, and organizing his supporters to fight for the Union. Lincoln made him a general, and Logan played a major role under generals Grant and Sherman. His men marched to war as Democrats; they marched home as Republicans. Logan helped found the Grand Army of the Republic veteran organization, was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, and was the Republican vice presidential nominee in 1884. As a precaution, Union troops remained in Little Egypt for the remainder of the war. With good reason, Southern and Confederate sentiment would remain alive with the growing Copperhead political movement in the North.
Confederates in the Cemetery: Federal Benefits & Stewardship
Confederates in the Cemetery: Federal Benefits & Stewardship
The federal government established the first national cemeteries during and immediately after the Civil War to provide honorable final resting places for soldiers who died in defense of the Union. However, it was also responsible for the burial of Confederate soldiers who died while being held as prisoners of war (POW). In some cases Confederate POWs were buried in designated sections of what would become national cemeteries, such as Finn’s Point, NJ, and Woodlawn NY; elsewhere, grounds were created specifically solely for Confederates, as at Rock Island and Camp Chase Confederate cemeteries.
Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration (NCA), oversees nine Confederate cemeteries associated with POW camps, in addition to burials strewn throughout more than two dozen national cemeteries. Three national cemeteries—all located in states that ceded from the Union—contain the graves of Confederate soldiers who died during the war but not as prisoners, and Confederate veterans who died as recently as the 1940s.
More than thirty monuments associated with Southern sacrifice are located in these national and Confederate cemeteries. Some, erected by the federal government in the first half of the twentieth century, function as “group” grave markers; other memorial monuments were erected by Confederate heritage groups.
Federal policies that led to the acquisition, marking and care of these Confederate burial places reflect a spirit of national healing that was fueled, in part, by the common experience of the Spanish-American War (1898-99). Government stewardship of Confederate burials and cemeteries began in earnest at the end of the nineteenth century with the reburial of Confederate remains scattered throughout Arlington National Cemetery into a single section, with each grave marked by a new headstone designed with a pointed or peaked top. New legislation enacted early in the twentieth century established the Commission for Marking Graves of Confederate Dead, which from 1906 to 1916 operated to document all burials of Confederate POWs in states that remained loyal to the Union and marked the graves with the “Arlington-style” headstone. The passage of time between the war’s end and the commission’s charter resulted in the loss of information about many burials, so a group memorial was erected at some cemeteries. Several sites are marked by monumental obelisk memorials, such as those at cemeteries in Alton, IL, and Point Lookout, MD. Legislation passed in 1914 and 1929 authorized the government to furnish headstones for Confederate graves in all national cemeteries and in “city, town, and village cemeteries.”
In 1973, eighty-two national cemeteries and thirty-two soldiers’ lots—including Confederate sites—were transferred from the U.S. Army to what became NCA. NCA also took responsibility for providing “government headstones or markers at the expense of the United States for the unmarked graves of…Soldiers of the Union and Confederate Armies of the Civil War (38 USC § 2306)” who are buried worldwide. Ceremonial activities associated with recognizing the Confederacy is very limited; for example, the use of Confederate flags in memorial programs are confined to NCA cemeteries where Confederates are interred.
The Confederate legacy can be a contentious subject, and renewed interest in memorialization continues to challenge NCA with its limited authority to provide federal burial benefits for those who served the Confederacy in the Civil War.
This presentation is based on an ongoing study initiated by NCA and undertaken by Cultural Resource Associates Inc. of eighteen NCA cemeteries that contain significant numbers of Confederate interments and monuments. NCA is slated to publish the study, and will be installing interpretive wayside signage at all its Confederate sites to tell the varied stories of these places. Today NCA manages more than 131 national cemeteries and thirty-three soldiers’ lots.