Helge Espelie
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| Name at Enlist | Helge Espelie |
| Birth Name | |
| Lived | ca. 1833 – |
| Resident of Muster-In | York, Green County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | E |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 10 Dec 1861 |
Helge Espelie joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company E. The men of the company called themselves “Odin’s Rifles.”
The army listed Espelie as living in York, Green County, WI, age 28, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on November 25, 1861 in Green County, and mustered on December 10, 1861 at Madison, WI as a Private (Menig). He was left sick in hospital at Mississippi River Island No. 10 on June 11, 1862. He discharged from the service for disability on August 6, 1962 at Cincinnati, OH by order of Lt. Col. Burbank.
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, Decorah, IA, 1894, p.476; Nordmændene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.279; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.303.