Peter Peterson
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| Name at Enlist | Peter Peterson |
| Birth Name | Peter Peterson |
| Lived | 1841 – |
| Resident of Muster-In | Primrose, Dane County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | B |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 16 Nov 1861 |
Peter Peterson 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.
The army listed him as living in Primrose, Dane County, WI, age 20, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on October 16, 1861 at Madison, WI, and mustered there on November 16, 1861 as a Private (Menig). Peterson was seriously wounded in an arm in Battle of New Hope Church, GA on May 27, 1864, and sent to the hospital. He mustered out with Company B on December 2, 1864 at Chattanooga, TN.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-4; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.34; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillage [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1895), p.396; Oberst Heg og hans Gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.297; Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Vol I & II, Compiled under direction of the Adjutant General, Madison, WI, 1886, p.809.