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Peder Thompson

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at Enlist

Peder Thompson

Birth Name

Peder Thompson

Other Names

Per Torgeirsen Såheimsmogen

Lived

1837 – 8 Jan 1863

Birth Place

Tinn, Telemark

Birth Country

Norway

Resident of Muster-In

Ridgeway, Winneshiek County, Iowa

Company at Enlistment

K

Rank at Enlistment

Private

Muster Date

11 Feb 1862

Cause of Death

sick

Death Location

Bowling Green, Kentucky

Burial Location

National Cemetery at Nashville, Tennessee, section N, grave 453

Mother

Aagoth Tovsdatter

Father

Torgeir Vetlesen Såheimsmogen

Peder Thompson was born “Per Torgeirsen Såheimsmogen” in 1837 at Tinn, Telemark, Norway. He was the son of Torgeir Vetlesen Såheimsmogen and Aagoth Tovsdatter. 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 Ridgeway, Winneshiek County, Iowa, age 24, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on January 23, 1862 in Winneshiek County and mustered at Madison, Wisconsin on February 11, 1862 as a Private (Menig). He left sick in Bowling Green, Kentucky on November 4, 1862 and he died there on January 8,1863. He was buried in National Cemetery at Nashville, Tennessee, section N, grave 453.

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.150; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillage [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers] by Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1895), p.645; Nordmaendene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.335; Oberst Heg og hans Gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.319; e-mail, Gene Estenson.