Torbjorn Erickson
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| Name at Enlist | Torbjorn Erickson |
| Birth Name | |
| Lived | ca. 1824 – 15 Nov 1862 |
| Resident of Muster-In | Primrose, Dane County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | E |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 8 Dec 1861 |
| Cause of Death | disease |
| Death Location | Edgefield Junction, TN |
| Burial Location | National Cemetery in Nashville, TN |
Torbjorn Erickson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company E. The men of the company called themselves “Odin’s Rifles.”
The army listed Erickson as living in Primrose, Dane County, WI, age 37, and married. He enlisted for three years on November 26, 1861 in Dane County, and mustered on December 8, 1861 at Madison, WI as a Private (Menig). He was missing while on the road from Lebanon to Cave City, KY. He died of disease at Edgefield Junction, TN on November 15, 1862. He was buried in National Cemetery in Nashville, TN.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, boxes 76-7, 77-8; 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; Nordmændene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.279; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, Decorah, IA, 1894, p.476; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.303.