Roselawn Memorial Park - Springfield

The history of Roselawn Memorial Park begins with a unique connection to Camp Butler. The Civil War training camp for Illinois volunteers was located in the area known today as Camp Butler National Cemetery and Roselawn Memorial Park.

Operating from 1861 to 1866, Camp Butler was the second-largest training camp in Illinois during the Civil War. It also served as a prison camp for captured Confederate soldiers. The first troops arrived at Camp Butler in August 1861 and after being trained as either cavalry or infantry soldiers, boarded trains at Jimtown (now Riverton) and headed off to war. All that remains of Camp Butler today is the national cemetery, which contains the graves of more than 1,600 Confederate and Union soldiers, as well as generations of servicemen and women, and their families. Most of the land on which the camp stood was returned to cropland or occupied by private residences. Part of the south camp and its adjacent drill fields are now part of Roselawn Memorial

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