Christoffer H. Lee
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| Name at Enlist | Christoffer H. Lee |
| Birth Name | Christopher Helgesen Fonhuuseie |
| Other Names | Christopher Helgesen Lien |
| Lived | 8 Dec 1836 – 17 Jan 1863 |
| Birth Place | Bagn parish, Sør-Aurdal, Oppland fylke |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Resident of Muster-In | York, Green County, WI |
| Company at Enlistment | E |
| Rank at Enlistment | Private |
| Muster Date | 10 Dec 1861 |
| Cause of Death | Wounds |
| Death Location | Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, TN |
| Burial Location | Stones River National Cemetery, Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, TN, unmarked grave |
| Mother | Ingri Arnesdatter (born Skaresæter) |
| Mother Lived | 1879-13 Mar 1880 |
| Father | Helge Olsen Tronhuus |
| Father Lived | 1795-23 Dec 1849 |
| Immigration | 1857 |
Christopher Helgesen was born on December 8, 1836, in Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway. His parents were Helge Olsen and Ingri Arnesdatter. He immigrated in 1857 with his mother, brother and sister to Green County. WI.
Christoffer H. Lee joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company E. The army listed him as living in York, Green County, WI, age 25, and unmarried. He enlisted for three years on December 5, 1861, in Green County, and mustered on December 10, 1861, at Madison, WI, as a Private (Menig). Lee was seriously wounded in the Battle at Stones River near Murfreesboro, TN, on December 30, 1862. He died in hospital near Murfreesboro, TN, on January 17, 1863, from wounds received in that battle. He is buried in an unmarked grave in Stones River National Cemetery.
Sources: Series 1200: Records of Civil War Regiments, 1861-1900, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, boxes 76-7, 77-8; Regimental muster and descriptive rolls, 1861-1865, Wisconsin Adjutant General’s Office, vol. 20, p. 76; Payroll muster rolls of WI 15th Co E, saved by Captain T. A. Rossing; Det Femtende Regiment, Wisconsin Frivillage [The Fifteenth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers], Ole A. Buslett, 1894, B. Anundsen, Decorah, IA, p. 487; Oberst Heg og hans Gutter, Waldemar Ager, 1916, Fremad Publ. Co., Eau Claire, WI, p. 305; The Military History of Wisconsin in the War for the Union, Edwin B. Quiner, 1866, Clarke & Co., Chicago, p. 621; Civil War Pension Index, Roll #T288_277; “Norwegian Immigrants 1850 and later”, database, NAGCNL, #64124; digitalarkivet.no; ancestry.com; findagrave.com.