Iver Anderson
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| Name at Enlist | Iver Anderson |
| Birth Name | Iver Andersen Evangerhougen |
| Other Names | Iver Anderson Evangerhaug/Evanger |
| Lived | 7 Jun 1828 – 27 May 1864 |
| Birth Place | Evangerhougen, Voss parish, Hordaland fylke |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | Preston, Jackson County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | E |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 8 Dec 1861 |
| Cause of Death | Gunshot |
| Death Location | New Hope Church, GA |
| Burial Location | Unknown |
| Mother | Gjertu Jacobsdatter Skorve |
| Mother Lived | 1795-24 Mar 1867 |
| Father | Anders Sjursen Evanger |
| Father Lived | 1793-5 Nov 1844 |
| Immigration | 1856 |
Iver Andersen was born at Evangerhougen, Voss, Hordaland, Norway and left Voss parish for America May 6, 1856. He joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company E. The men of the company called themselves “Odin’s Rifles.”
The army listed Anderson as living in Preston, Jackson County, WI, age 30, a farmer, and unmarried. He had blue eyes, sandy hair, fair complexion, and stood 5’7”. He enlisted for three years on November 7, 1861, at Preston, and mustered on December 8, 1861, at Madison, WI, as a Private (Menig). He was wounded at Stones River near Murfreesboro, TN, on December 30, 1862, and sent to hospital at Nashville, TN. He was moved to a hospital at New Albany, IN. He was sick at Chattanooga, TN, on November 28, 1863. On May 27, 1864, he was killed by a gunshot at the battle of New Hope Church, GA. His brother, Peter Anderson, also joined Company E.
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. 70; Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, Wm. DeLoss Love, 1866, Church and Goodman, Chicago, p. 1080; Payroll muster rolls of WI 15th Co E, saved by Captain T. A. Rossing; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, 1894, B. Anundsen, Decorah, IA, p. 471; Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p. 268; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p. 303; The Military History of Wisconsin in the War for the Union, Edwin B. Quiner, 1866, Clarke & Co., Chicago, pp. 621, 629; Lars Gjertveit, Bodo, Norway; digitalarkivet.no; Norwegian Immigrants 1850 and later”, database, NAGCNL, #27508.