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Engebret Amundson

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at Enlist

Engebret Amundson

Birth Name

Ingebreth Amundsen Helgagersbraaten

Other Names

Ingebrigt, Engebreyt

Lived

24 Mar 1844 – 6 May 1862

Birth Place

Gran parish, Oppland fylke

Birth Country

Norway

Resident of Muster-In

Freeborn County, MN

Company at Enlistment

K

Rank at Enlistment

Private

Muster Date

11 Feb 1862

Cause of Death

Disease

Death Location

Mississippi River Island No. 10

Burial Location

Mississippi River National Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby County, TN

Mother

Christiane Halsteensdatter

Mother Lived

12 Aug 1819-18 Apr 1891

Father

Amund Ingebretsen Helgagersbraaten

Father Lived

8 Sep 1805-19 Mar 1887

Immigration

1852

Ingebreth Amundsen was born on the Helgagersbraaten farm in Gran parish, Oppland. He left the parish April 10, 1852, with his parents and three sisters.

Engebret Amundson 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 Minnesota and Iowa, with the rest from Wisconsin.

The army listed Amundson as living in Freeborn County, MN, and age 18. He enlisted for three years on January 20, 1862, in Freeborn County, and mustered at Madison, WI, on February 11, 1862, as a Private (Menig). He died of disease in the regimental hospital at Mississippi River Island No. 10 on May 6, 1862, and buried in Mississippi River National Cemetery, Memphis, TN.

 

Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, boxes 76-12, 77-3; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol. 20, p. 142; Det Femtende Regiment Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, 1894, B. Anundsen, Decorah, IA, p. 619; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p. 316; Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, Wm. DeLoss Love, 1866, Church and Goodman, Chicago, p. 1082; Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p. 267; digitalarkivet.no; “Norwegian Immigrants 1850 and later”, database, NAGCNL, #28735.