Knud Gullikson
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| Name at Enlist | Knud Gullikson |
| Birth Name | Knud Gullikson |
| Other Names | Knut Gulleiksen Skjerveggen (Knud Gulliksen Skjær |
| Lived | 4 Dec 1828 – |
| Birth Place | Voss, Hordaland |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | Mitchell County, Iowa |
| Company at Enlistment | K |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 11 Feb 1862 |
| Mother | Mari Gulliksdatter Fadnes |
| Father | Gulleik Andersen Skjerveggen |
| Immigration | 29 Jun 1848 |
| Spouse | Ranvei Gulleksdatter Bergstad |
| 2nd Spouse | Mary Sheldy Olson |
| 2nd Marriage Date | 21 Nov 1883 |
Knud Gullikson was born “Knut Gulleiksen Skjerveggen (Knud Gulliksen Skjærvæggen?)” on December 4, 1828 at Voss, Hordaland, Norway, the son of Gulleik Andersen Skjerveggen and Mari Gulliksdatter Fadnes. He came to America with his mother and two brothers, Anders and Gullik. They sailed on “Augusta”, out of Bergen, which arrived in NY on June 29, 1848. They came to the Spring Prairie settlement in Columbia County, WI. Knud married Ranvei Gulleksdatter Bergstad. Moved to IA.
He joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company K. The company called itself “Clausen’s Guards” in honor of the 15th’s first Chaplain, Claus L. Clausen. Most of the company was recruited from Scandinavian communities in MN and IA, with the rest from WI.
The army listed Gullikson as living in Mitchell County, IA, age 33, and married. He enlisted for three years on January 28, 1862 in Mitchell County, and mustered at Madison, WI on February 11, 1862 as a Private (Menig). He was sick in Union City, TN in June, and in a hospital in Farmington, MS in July. He became unfit for service and was discharged for disability in Cincinnati, OH on September 9, 1862.
After the war, Knud and Ranvei were divorced in 1882. On November 21, 1883, he married Mary Sheldy Olson, who had divorced her first husband. In 1886, they were living in Otranto Station, Mitchell County.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office box 76-12; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office vol.20, p.144; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillage [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers] (Decorah, Iowa, 1895); Oberst Heg og hans Gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire WI, p.317; Lars Gjertveit, Bodo, Norway; List of Ex-Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, living in Iowa, William L Alexander, Des Moines, IA 1886, p.705; Naeseth ’48-228.