Christopher Gulbrandson
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| Name at Enlist | Christopher Gulbrandson |
| Birth Name | Christopher Gulbrandsen Rugland |
| Other Names | Gilbertson, Rugland |
| Lived | 5 Aug 1816 – 5 Aug 1880 |
| Birth Place | Eggedal parish, Sigdal, Buskerud fylke |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | Worth County, IA |
| Company at Enlistment | K |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 11 Feb 1862 |
| Death Location | Freeborn Co, MN |
| Burial Location | North Round Prairie Cem, Greenville, Freeborn Co, MN |
| Mother | Helge Gjermandsdatter Tollefsrud |
| Mother Lived | 1780-27 May 1838 |
| Father | Gulbrand Fingarsen Rugland |
| Father Lived | 1770-30 Dec 1841 |
| Immigration | by 1862 |
| Spouse | Sigrid Sebjørnsdatter Skare |
| Spouse Lived | 12 Feb 1819-9 Jan 1855 |
| Married On | 28 Nov 1841 |
| Marriage Location | Eggedal parish, Sigdal, Buskerud |
| 2nd Spouse | Randi Tollefsdatter |
| 2nd Spouse Lived | 7 Jan 1819-26 May 1898 |
| 2nd Marriage Date | 26 Jul 1863 |
| 2nd Marriage Location | Silver Lake, Worth Co, IA |
Christopher Gulbrandson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company K. The company called itself “Clausen’s Guards” in honor of the 15th’s first Chaplain, Claus L. Clausen. Most of the company was recruited from Scandinavian communities in Minnesota and Iowa, with the rest from Wisconsin.
The army listed Gulbrandson as living in Worth County, IA, age 45, and married. He enlisted for three years on January 20, 1862, in Worth County, and mustered at Madison, WI, on February 11, 1862, as a Private (Menig). He was left behind, sick, at Mississippi River Island No. 10 on June 11, 1862. He became unfit for service and was discharged for disease at Cincinnati, OH, on October 10, 1862.
Christopher had at least six children with his first wife, who died in Norway, most of whom emigrated to America: Gulbrand 1842-?, Sebjørn/Samuel (1845-1892), Fingal (1847-1892), Helle (1850-1942), Lars/Lewis (1852-1933), and Stener/Stephen (1855-1929). He and his second wife moved to Freeborn Co, MN, where he died in 1880.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-12; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol. 20, p. 144; Det Femtende Regiment Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, 1894, B. Anundsen, Decorah, IA, p. 623; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p. 317; Nordmændene i Amerika, Martin Ulvestad, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p. 284; “Norwegian Immigrants 1850 and later”, database, NAGCNL, #44950; digitalarkivet.no: ancestry.com;findagrave.