Gunder Olson
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| Name at Enlist | Gunder Olson |
| Birth Name | |
| Lived | ca. 1843 – 21 Sep 1863 |
| Birth Place | Risor |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | Stoughton, Dane County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | B |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 16 Nov 1861 |
| Cause of Death | wounds |
| Death Location | Atlanta, Fulton County, GA |
| Father | Ole Olson Sharpe |
Gunder Olson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company B. The men of the company called themselves the “Wergeland Guards” in honor of Henrik Wergeland, the famous Norwegian writer and poet.
The army listed him as living in Stoughton, Dane County, WI, born in Risor, Norway, age 18, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on September 20, 1861 at Madison, WI, and mustered there on November 16, 1861 as a Private (Menig). He was wounded and taken prisoner in Battle of Chickamauga, GA on September 19, 1863, and died of his wounds in, or on the way to, Atlanta on September 21, 1863. His father, Ole Olson Sharpe, filed a pension in his name on March 14, 1879.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-4; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.34; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.394; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.296; Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Vol I & II, compiled under direction of the Adjutant General, Madison, WI, 1886, p.809; Civil War Pension Index, Roll #T288_355.