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Ole N. Knudson

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at Enlist

Ole N. Knudson

Birth Name
Other Names

Knutsen

Lived

ca. 1834 – 30 Dec 1862

Resident of Muster-In

Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA

Company at Enlistment

F

Rank at Enlistment

Private

Muster Date

29 Dec 1861

Cause of Death

killed in action

Death Location

Battle of Stones River, TN

Ole N. Knudson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company F. The men of the company called themselves “KK’s Protectors” in honor of the 15th’s first Lieutenant Colonel, Kiler K. Jones. “F” was also known as the Valdres Company because a large number of its members hailed from the Valdres region of Norway. The army listed him as living in Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA, age 27, and unmarried. Knudson enlisted for three years on December 2, 1861 at Decorah, and mustered at Madison, WI on December 29, 1861 as a Private (Menig). He was killed in the Battle of Stones River, TN on December 30, 1862.

 

Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, boxes 76-8, 77-8; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin; Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.88; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.508; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.307; The Military History of Wisconsin in the War for the Union, Edwin B. Quiner, 1866, Clarke & Co., Chicago, p.621; Nordmaendene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.303.