Anders Thompson
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| Name at Enlist | Anders Thompson |
| Birth Name | |
| Other Names | Andreas, Andrew |
| Lived | ca. 1837 – |
| Resident of Muster-In | Fillmore County, MN |
| Company at Enlistment | K |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 11 Feb 1862 |
Anders Thompson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company K. The company called itself “Clausen’s Guards” in honor of the 15th’s first Chaplain, Claus L. Clausen. Most of the company was recruited from Scandinavian communities in MN and IA, with the rest from WI.
The army listed him as living in Fillmore County, MN, age 24 and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on February 11, 1862 in Fillmore County and mustered at Madison, WI the same day as a Private (Menig). He was sick in the general hospital in Farmington, MS in July 1862 and in Nashville, TN in February 1863. He became unfit for service and was discharged for disability at Nashville on April 22, 1863. In 1890, he was living in Highland, Fillmore County.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-12; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.148; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers] by Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.644 photo; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.283 photo, p.319; 1890 Veterans and Widows Census, Minnesota, No.123, roll 22.