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Hans Nielsen

15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
The Scandinavian Regiment

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Name at Enlist

Hans Nielsen

Birth Name
Lived

ca. 1819 – 5 Sep 1862

Resident of Muster-In

Raymond, Racine County, WI

Company at Enlistment

C

Rank at Enlistment

Private

Muster Date

2 Dec 1861

Cause of Death

Disease

Death Location

Iuka, Tishomingo County, MS

Burial Location

Corinth, Alcorn County, MS

Hans Nielsen joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company C. The men of the company called themselves the “Norway Bear Hunters,” but they were also known as the Color Company because the regimental Color Guard was attached to their company.

The army listed Nielsen as living in Raymond, Racine County, WI, age 42, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on November 21, 1861 at Waterford, WI, and mustered on December 2, 1861 at Madison, WI as a Private (Menig). Nielsen was left behind in Iuka, MS on August 21, 1862 because of illness. He died there of disease on September 5, 1862 and is believed to be buried in Cemetery at Corinth, MS.

 

Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, boxes 76-5, 77-8; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.48; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.423; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.299.