Halvor Jenson
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| Name at Enlist | Halvor Jenson |
| Birth Name | |
| Lived | ca. 1819 – 12 Jan 1863 |
| Resident of Muster-In | York, Green County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | E |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 8 Dec 1861 |
| Death Location | Nashville, Davidson County, TN |
Halvor Jenson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company E. The men of the company called themselves “Odin’s Rifles.” The army listed him as living in York, Green County, WI, age 42, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on October 21, 1861 in Green County, and mustered on December 8, 1861, at Madison, WI as a Private (Menig). He was sick in hospital in Nashville, TN on November 26, 1862. He died there on January 12, 1863.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, box 76-7; Regimental Muster and Descriptive Rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol.20, p.74; Payroll muster rolls of WI 15th Co E, saved by Captain T. A. Rossing; Ole A. Buslett, Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillige [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers] (Decorah, Iowa, 1894), p.481; Martin Ulvestad, Nordmændene i Amerika, 1907, History Book Co., Minneapolis, MN, p.295; Oberst Heg og hans gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Pub. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p.304.