Albert Mickelson
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| Name at Enlist | Albert Mickelson |
| Birth Name | Albert Mickelson |
| Other Names | Mikkelsen |
| Lived | 1839 – |
| Resident of Muster-In | Madison, Dane County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | F |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 27 Jan 1862 |
Albert Mickelson 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 Mickelson as living in Madison, Dane County, WI, age 23, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on January 21, 1862 at Madison, WI and mustered there on January 27, 1862 as a Private (Menig). He was sick in Iuka, MS on August 21, 1862 and also at the Convalescent Center in Nashville, TN on December 26, 1862. Mickelson mustered out with the Company on January 13, 1865 at Chattanooga, TN.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, boxes 76-8, 77-2; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin; Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.90; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillage [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, IA, 1895), p.510; Oberst Heg og hans Gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.307; Nordmaendene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.310.