Tosten L. Mossefin
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| Name at Enlist | Tosten L. Mossefin |
| Birth Name | Tosteen Larsen Mossefind |
| Other Names | Larsen |
| Lived | 13 Dec 1835 – |
| Birth Place | Voss parish, Hordaland |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | Cambridge, Dane County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | H |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 13 Feb 1862 |
| Mother | Gjertrud Knudsdatter Stor Saude |
| Mother Lived | 1798-5 Jan 1845 |
| Father | Lars Knudsen Mossefind |
| Father Lived | 1794-7 Aug 1882 |
| Immigration | 1856 |
Tosten L. Mossefin was born in Voss parish, Norway, and left the parish April 16, 1856. He joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company H. The men of the company called themselves “Heg’s Rifles” in honor of the 15th commander, Colonel Hans C. Heg. They were also known as the “Voss Company” because of a large number of them who were from the Voss region of Norway.
The army listed Mossefin as living in Cambridge, Dane County, WI, age 26, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on October 19, 1861, at Cambridge, and mustered at Madison, WI, on February 13, 1862, as a Private (Menig). He was sick in hospital at Bowling Green, KY, on November 4, 1862, and sent to Convalescent Center at Murfreesboro, TN, on May 17, 1863. On September 19, 1863, he was sick in Murfreesboro. He suffered a head wound near Atlanta, GA, on August 17, 1864, and sent to a hospital. Mossefin mustered out on February 13, 1865. He was entered on the Roll of Honor of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-10; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin; Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.118; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, 1894, B. Anundsen, Decorah, IA, p. 568; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.279, photo, p.310; Nordmaendene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.310; “Norwegian Immigrants 1850 and later”, database, NAGCNL, #27275; digitalarkivet.no.