Fort Winnebago Cemetery, Wisconsin

Fort Winnebago Cemetery Soldiers’ Lot is located near the site of Old Fort Winnebago, 2.5 miles north of Portage, Wisconsin. Established in 1828, Fort Winnebago was one of a series of forts along the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway, a portage linking the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers and connecting Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River. Jefferson Davis was stationed at Fort Winnebago as a young soldier before becoming president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. The 2-acre site was designated as a soldiers’ lot in 1862. There are 75 gravesites in the lot, including those of soldiers from the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. The Daughters of the American Revolution erected a granite boulder monument dedicated to the memory of the unknown dead.