Peter Homlebeck
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| Name at Enlist | Peter Homlebeck |
| Birth Name | |
| Lived | ca. 1816 – 12 Oct 1862 |
| Resident of Muster-In | New Glarus, Green County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | E |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 17 Dec 1861 |
| Cause of Death | disease |
| Death Location | Bowling Green, KY |
| Burial Location | Nashville, TN, Cemetery, section N, grave 160 |
Peter Homlebeck joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company E. The men of the company called themselves “Odin’s Rifles.”
The army listed Homlebeck as living in New Glarus, Green County, WI, age 45, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on December 14, 1861 in Green County, and mustered on December 17, 1861 at Madison, WI as a Private (Menig). He was left sick in hospital at Bowling Green, KY on September 16, 1862. He died there of disease on October 12, 1862. He was buried in Nashville, TN, Cemetery, section N, grave 160.
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.74; 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 480; Nordmændene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.292; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.304.