During the January Uprising, a large insurgent detachment, which included many Polish students from Moscow, stayed in the forestry area in Kurachy. They were commanded by W. Mroczkowski, and later by Aleksander Andruszkiewicz. The insurgents were hiding in the vicinity of the villages of Juszkiszki, Szaltupie, Kuras and Shule. On 7.04.1863, a battle, victorious for the insurgents, took place with the tsarist army near the village of Szule. However, a few days later, the combined tsarist troops attacked the insurgents' camp again. About 15 insurgents and their commanders were killed in the fierce battle. The bodies of some of those killed were taken away by relatives, others were taken away by the Tsarist army. The remaining 9 insurgents were buried near the battle site. On the 20th anniversary of the uprising, in 1883, the inscription "1863" was carved on the oldest pine tree growing near the graves, and a wooden shrine was placed on one of the trees. In 1927, a resident of the nearby village, Vincas Tamulaitis, together with his neighbours, tidied up the grave and planted 9 pine trees to symbolise the fallen insurgents. The site was redecorated in 1963, on the 100th anniversary of the uprising. On the initiative of a history teacher, a wooden monument with folk ornaments was erected in Jeziorki. In 1967, a boulder was unveiled, symbolising the trunk of an oak tree broken by a storm. The inscription on the wooden trunk in front of the boulder reads: "Sukilėlių kapai 1863" ("Cemetery of insurgents 1863"). In 1999, the square in front of the cemetery was cleaned up.