Ingebret O. Baalstad
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| Name at Enlist | Ingebret O. Baalstad |
| Birth Name | |
| Other Names | Ingebret Bolstad, Ingebret O. Volstad, Ingebrigt |
| Lived | ca. 1843 – |
| Resident of Muster-In | Primrose, Dane County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | I |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 09 Jan 1862 |
Ingebret O. Baalstad joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company I. The men of the company called themselves the “Scandinavian Mountaineers” but were also known as the “Waupaca Company” because so many of them were living in that WI county when they enlisted.
The army listed Baalstad as living in Primrose, Dane County, WI, age 18, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on October 22, 1861, at Camp Randall, Madison, WI, and mustered there on January 9, 1862, as a Private (Menig). He was home on leave to Primrose on May 11, 1862. He was sick in hospital in Madison on May 11, 1862 and June 6, 1863. He was absent without leave on June 11, 1863. Baalstad was with Bridge’s Battery in November 1863. He was in the 6th OH Battery in February 1864. He was a wagoner in Chattanooga, TN, on October 17, 1864. He mustered out with I Company on February 10, 1865 at Chattanooga.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, Archives, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, box 76-11; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, Archives, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, vol. 20, p. 128; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, 1894, Decorah, IA, p. 586; Nordmændene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p. 270, p. 272; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p. 314.