Christian Ruste
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| Name at Enlist | Christian Ruste |
| Birth Name | |
| Other Names | Kristian M. Røste, Christen Martin Arnesen Røste |
| Lived | ca. 1845 – 02 May 1862 |
| Birth Place | Røste farm, Etnedalen, Valdres, Oppland |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | Blue Mounds, Dane County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | E |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 11 Jan 1862 |
| Cause of Death | Typhoid fever |
| Death Location | Island No. 10, TN, in the Mississippi River |
| Burial Location | Buried as an unidentified soldier, Memphis National Cemetery, City of Memphis, TN |
| Mother | Siri (Sigrid) Andersdatter Kleivgard |
| Mother Lived | 1809-1908 |
| Father | Arne Ellingson (Erlandson) Blåflat |
| Father Lived | 1808-1852 |
| Immigration | 7 Aug 1850 |
Christian Ruste born in Sondre Aurdal, Norway. He joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company E. The men of the company called themselves “Odin’s Rifles.”
The army listed him as living in Blue Mounds, Dane County, WI, a farmer, age 17, and unmarried. He had blue eyes, brown hair, fair complexion, and stood 5’6”. He enlisted for three years on January 9, 1862, at La Crosse, WI, and mustered at Madison, WI on January 11, 1862, as a Private (Menig). He died of nerve fever in hospital at Mississippi River Island No. 10 on May 2, 1862, and was buried at Mississippi River National Cemetery, Memphis, TN.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-7, -15; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol. 20, p. 78; Payroll muster rolls of WI 15th Co E, saved by Captain T. A. Rossing; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p. 277, photo, p.305; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, 1894, Decorah, IA , p. 492; Nordmaendene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p. 326.