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Levi Page

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at Enlist

Levi Page

Birth Name

Levi Page

Lived

May 1843 – 25 Feb 1916

Birth Place

Wisconsin

Birth Country

USA

Resident of Muster-In

Waterford, Racine County, WI

Company at Enlistment

C

Rank at Enlistment

Private

Muster Date

2 Dec 1861

Burial Location

Kearney Cemetery, Kearney, Buffalo County, NE

Mother

Sally Jane Barnes

Mother Lived

1812-1849

Father

Hiram

Father Lived

1809-1881

Spouse

Mary M. Merrills

Spouse Lived

Jun 1856-1924

Married On

1875

Levi Page was born in May 1843 in WI to Hiram (born in NY) and Sally Jane (born in Ireland). His siblings were Horrace (1836), George (1840), Charles (1846), and Philp (1850).

Page joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company C. The men of the company called themselves the “Norway Bear Hunters,” but they were also known as the Color Company because the regimental Color Guard was attached to their company. His brother, George, also served in the WI 15th.

The army listed him as living in Waterford, WI, age 20, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on November 4, 1861 at Waterford, and mustered at Madison, WI on December 2, 1861 as a Private (Menig). He was assigned as a wagoner with the division supply transport on June 20, 1863 and also on July 1, 1863. Page was assigned to the quartermaster department between those two dates. He mustered out with Company C on January 1, 1865 at Chattanooga, TN.

After the war, he married Mary M. Merrills in 1875. They had two children: Clyde Oliver and Claude Obediah. By 1900, they lived in Kearney Ward 1, Buffalo County, NE. He and his wife were both buried in Kearney Cemetery, Kearney, Buffalo County, NE.

Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-5; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.48; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.427; findagrave.com; Civil War Pension Index, Roll # T288_359; 1850 Census, Roll: M432_1004, Page: 174B, Image: 348; 1860 Census, Roll: M653_1427, Page: 865, Image: 483, Family History Library Film: 805427; 1900 Census, Roll: 917, Page: 7A, Enumeration District:0032, FHL microfilm: 1240917; and 1910 Census, Roll: T624_839, Page: 2A, Enumeration District: 0041, FHL microfilm: 1374852.