Arel Pederson
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| Name at Enlist | Arel Pederson |
| Birth Name | Arel Pederson |
| Other Names | Axel Peterson |
| Lived | 1842 – 3 Jul 1864 |
| Birth Place | Oslo |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | Worth, Iowa |
| Company at Enlistment | K |
| Rank at Enlistment | Corporal |
| Muster Date | 1 Feb 1862 |
| Cause of Death | chronic diarrhea |
| Death Location | Andersonville Prison, Macon County, Georgia |
| Burial Location | Andersonville National Cemetery, Macon County, Georgia; grave 2847 |
Arel Pederson was from Kristiania (Oslo), Norway. He 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 him as living in Worth, Iowa, age 19. and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on January 18, 1862 in Freeborn County, Minnesota, and mustered on February 11, 1862 at Madison, Wisconsin. He was designated Corporal (Korporal) on February 1, 1862. Pederson was on Military Police duty in October 1862. On December 1862, he was sick in Nashville, Tennessee. He was taken prisoner at Chickamauga, Georgia on September 20, 1863, and died of chronic diarrhea in Andersonville prison on July 3, 1864. He was buried there in grave 2847.
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.140; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillage [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1895), p.639; Nordmaendene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.265, 321; Oberst Heg og hans Gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.319; “Prisoners who died at Andersonville Prison” Atwater List, publ 1865; “Peterson, Axel” “Pederson, Arel”.