Nils Einer
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| Name at Enlist | Nils Einer |
| Birth Name | Nils Einer |
| Other Names | Nils Einarson, Niels Einarson |
| Lived | ca 1840 – 1906 |
| Resident of Muster-In | Perry, Dane County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | H |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 13 Feb 1862 |
| Death Location | Hillsboro, ND |
Nils Einer joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company H. The men of his company called themselves “Heg’s Rifles” in honor of the 15th commander, Colonel Hans C. Heg. They were also known as the “Voss Company” because of a large number of them who were from the Voss region of Norway.
The army listed him as living in Perry, Dane County, WI, age 21, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on November 8, 1861 in Dane County, and mustered at Madison, WI on February 13, 1862 as a Private (Menig). He was wounded at Stones River, TN in December 1862, and sent to hospital at Nashville, TN until May 1863. He was missing in action at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863. He had been captured by the enemy and sent to Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. He was also held at Danville, Charleston, and Florence prisons. On November 18, 186,3 he was reported “gained from missing in action”. He was paroled in December 1864. He mustered out as “Nils Einarson” at Madison, WI on July 5, 1865 per date of April 20, 1865. He died in Hillsboro, ND in 1906.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-10; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office vol.11 p.44, vol.20 p.124; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillage [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, Decorah, IA, 1895, p.557; Nordmændene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.277; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.309; Blaine Hedberg, NAGC&NL: ancestry.com.