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Gilbert Thorsten

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at Enlist

Gilbert Thorsten

Birth Name
Other Names

Thosten, Tosten

Lived

ca. 1841 – 30 Oct 1862

Resident of Muster-In

Clinton, Rock County, WI

Company at Enlistment

G

Rank at Enlistment

Corporal

Muster Date

13 Dec 1861

Cause of Death

dysentery

Death Location

Mississippi River Island No. 10

Burial Location

Mississippi River National Cemetery at Memphis, TN

Gilbert Thorsten joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company G. The men of the company called themselves the “Rock River Rangers.”

The army listed him as living in Clinton, Rock County, WI, age 20, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on December 11, 1861 at Beloit and mustered at Madison, WI on December 13, 1861 as a Corporal (Korporal). He died of dysentery at Mississippi River Island No. 10 on 30 Oct 1862 and was buried in Mississippi River National Cemetery at Memphis, TN.

Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-9; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.98; Ole A. Buslett, Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers] (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.545; Martin Ulvestad, Nordmændene i Amerika, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.266; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.313.