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Andrew Dulton

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at EnlistAndrew Dulton
Birth Name
Other NamesDutton
Livedca. 1843 - 19 Apr 1864
Resident of Muster-InWaupun, Fond du Lac County, WI
Company at EnlistmentD
Rank at EnlistmentPrivate
Muster Date8 Dec 1861
Cause of Deathsick
Death LocationNashville, TN
Burial LocationNashville National Cemetery; section H, grave 685

Andrew Dulton 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 Dulton as living in Waupun, Fond du Lac County, WI, age 18, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on November 14, 1861 at Waupun, and mustered at Madison, WI on December 8, 1861 as a Private (Menig). He was sick in Murfreesboro, TN in June, and in Nashville, TN since August 1863. He died there on April 19, 1864. He was buried in Nashville National Cemetery; section H, grave 685.

 

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; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, Decorah, IA, 1894, p.440; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.300.