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Peder Johnson

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at EnlistPeder Johnson
Birth Name
Livedca. 1839 - 21 Jul 1862
Resident of Muster-InOconomowoc, Waukesha County, WI
Company at EnlistmentD
Rank at EnlistmentPrivate
Muster Date10 Dec 1861
Cause of DeathDisease
Death Locationcamp near Corinth, Alcorn County, MS
Burial LocationNational Cemetery, Corinth, Alcorn County, MS

Peder Johnson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company D. The men of the company called themselves the “Norway Wolf Hunters.” They were also known as the “Waupun Company” because so many of its members were from that WI county. The army listed him as living in Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, WI, age 22, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on October 30, 1861 at Oconomowoc, and mustered at Madison, WI on December 10, 1861 as a Private (Menig). He died of disease in camp near Corinth, MS on July 21, 1862 and buried at the National Cemetery there.

 

Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, boxes 76-6, 78-3; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.60; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.449.