Winnebago Veterans Monument

Located just outside the Wisconsin National Guard Museum, this monument memorializes 29 men from WWI and seven from WWII who died while serving our country. This granite, carved into the shape of the State of Wisconsin, is listed on the National War Memorial Registry.

The war took a dark toll on one Camp Douglas family. Army Corporal Foster DeCorah was one of many Winnebago Indigenous people who fought and died in WWI. Foster’s nephew Robert DeCorah was killed alongside him, and sons Arthur, Henry and William were also killed in the war. Son John escaped death and made his way to his native home of Wisconsin.

Brothers Allen and Russius DeCorah were also killed. It is unknown whether if they were related to the other Decorah’s involved in the war.

Foster DeCorah, was one of 35 DeCorah descendants, and one of more than 12,000 men from Wisconsin who died in the war. Foster was commended with the WWI Victory Medal and the Purple Heart.