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Halvor Jenson 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 him as living in Fillmore County, MN, age 32, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on February 11, 1862 in Fillmore County, and mustered at Madison, WI (possibly the same day) as a Private (Menig). He was sick in Nashville, TN in December 1862. Jenson discharged from the service for disability due to disease at Murfreesboro, TN on April 9, 1863.

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; Ole A. Buslett, Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers] (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.628; Martin Ulvestad, Nordmændene i Amerika, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN,  p.295 ; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.318.