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Rollef Amundson

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at EnlistRollef Amundson
Birth Name
Livedca. 1833 -
Resident of Muster-InPine Lake, Waukesha County, WI
Company at EnlistmentD
Rank at EnlistmentPrivate
Muster Date8 Dec 1861

Rollef Amundson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company D. The men of the company called themselves the “Norway Wolf Hunters.” They were also known as the “Waupun Company” because so many of its members were from Waupun.

The army listed Amundson as living in Pine Lake, Waukesha County, WI, age 28, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years at Pine Lake on October 30, 1861, and mustered on December 8, 1861, at Madison, WI, as a Private (Menig). He was taken prisoner at Nolandsville, TN. He then mustered out on February 13, 1865.

 

Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, boxes 76-6, 78-3; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol. 20, p. 58; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p. 300.