Amund Olson
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| Name at Enlist | Amund Olson |
| Birth Name | Amund Olson |
| Lived | – |
| Resident of Muster-In | Bad Ax (Vernon) County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | A |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 17 Dec 1861 |
Amund Olson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company A. The men of the company called themselves the “St. Olaf’s Rifles.” They were also known as the “Sailor Company” because of the large number of seamen in its ranks, and as the “Chicago Company” because so many of its members were residents of that city.
The army listed him as living in Bad Ax (now Vernon) County, WI and age 20. He enlisted for three years on November 14, 1861 in Bad Ax County, and mustered on December 17, 1861 at Madison, WI as a Private (Menig). Olson was sick in the hospital, Mound City, IL. He was then given leave from hospital and overstayed his leave. Olson was sick in Bardstown, KY on October 8, 1862. On September 20, 1863, he was wounded in Battle of Chickamauga, GA and sent to hospital in Chattanooga, TN. He was sick in camp hospital on July 11, 1864. Olson mustered out with Company A at Chattanooga, TN on December 20, 1864.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-3; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.20; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillage [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1895), p.363; Oberst Heg og hans Gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.293.