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Levert Leverson

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at Enlist

Levert Leverson

Birth Name
Lived

Company at Enlistment

B

Levert Leverson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company B. The men of the company called themselves the “Wergeland Guards” in honor of Henrik Wergeland, the famous Norwegian writer and poet.

Leverson was wounded in the battle near Dallas, GA on May 27, 1864.

 

Sources: The Military History of Wisconsin in the War for the Union, Edwin B. Quiner, 1866, Clarke & Co., Chicago, p.629.