Ditleff Thoraldson
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| Name at Enlist | Ditleff Thoraldson |
| Birth Name | |
| Other Names | Tharaldsen, Thorwaldson, Tharaldson |
| Lived | ca. 1842 – |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | Janesville, Rock County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | A |
| 2nd Company | H |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 11 Jun 1861 |
Ditleff Thoraldson joined D Company of the WI 2nd Infantry. The army listed him as living in Janesville, Rock County, WI, born in Norway, a shoemaker and harness maker, unmarried, and age 19. He had blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, and 5’8½”. He enlisted for three years on April 20, 1861 at Janesville and mustered on June 11, 1861 at Madison, WI as a Private (Menig). He discharged from the service for disability on August 1, 1862. At age 21, he enlisted again, for three years, on December 30, 1863 at Janesville. He mustered there the next day and assigned to the WI 15th Infantry, Company A with a bounty of $402, as a Corporal (Korporal). 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.
He joined Company A at Strawberry Plains, VA and then transferred to Company H on December 20, 1864 at Whiteside, TN. On January 20, 1865, he transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps at Whiteside, transferred to the 24th Infantry, and transferred to I Company of the WI 13th Infantry on June 10, 1865. He was discharged from the service on June 30, 1865 at New Orleans, LA by reason of being supernumerary non-commissioned officer. He lived in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, Dakota Territory. In February 1864 he was granted a pension of $8 a month because of a gun shot wound to his left shoulder.
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.8, vol.18, p.184, vol.20, p.16; Ole A. Buslett, Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers] (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.370; Martin Ulvestad, Nordmændene i Amerika, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.265; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.294; “Pensioners on the Roll as of January 1, 1883, living in Dakota Territory”, publ. by Park Genealogical Books, Roseville,Minnesota, p.23.