Ole Ericksen
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| Name at Enlist | Ole Ericksen |
| Birth Name | Ole Eriksen Diestad |
| Lived | 20 Jul 1839 – 29 Jan 1864 |
| Birth Place | Mundal parish, Balestrand, Sogn og Fjordane fylke |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | Arendahl, Fillmore County, MN |
| Company at Enlistment | E |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 20 Dec 1861 |
| Cause of Death | Chronic diarrhea |
| Death Location | U.S. General Hospital No.19 in Nashville, TN |
| Burial Location | Nashville Cemetery; section E, grave 1430, Madison, Davidson County, TN |
| Mother | Solvei Andersdatter Rendedahl |
| Mother Lived | 1809-20 Jan 1887 |
| Father | Erik Thorsen Jordahl |
| Father Lived | 1802-1 May 1856 |
| Immigration | 1848 |
Ole Ericksen was born in Norway and left for Wisconsin with his parents, siblings and half-siblings in 1848. They arrived in New York on the Dorothea. He joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company E. The men of the company called themselves “Odin’s Rifles.”
The army listed Ericksen as living in Arendahl, Fillmore County, MN, a wagon maker, age 23, and unmarried. He had brown eyes, blond hair, fair complexion, and stood 5’9”. He enlisted for three years on December 18, 1861, at La Crosse, WI, and mustered on December 20, 1861, at Madison, WI, as a Private (Menig). He was promoted to Corporal (Korporal) on September 2, 1862, by order of Col. H. C. Heg. He was sick in Chattanooga, TN, on November 1, 1863. He died of chronic diarrhea in U.S. General Hospital No.19 in Nashville, TN, on January 29, 1864. He was buried in Nashville National Cemetery, Madison, Davidson Co, TN, section E, grave 1430.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-7; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol. 20, p. 72; Payroll muster rolls of WI 15th Co E, saved by Captain T. A. Rossing; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, 1894, B. Anundsen, Decorah, IA, p. 475; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p. 303; Norwegian Immigrants to the United States. A Biographical Directory, 1825-1850. Volume Three 1847-1848, Gerhard B. Naeseth, edited by Blaine Hedberg, 2000, Anundsen Publishing Co., Decorah, IA, p. ID436; digitalarkivet.no; ancestry.com; findagrave.com.