Halvor Halvorson Quie

He came to America with his family and Fingalson cousins in 1845, settling in Racine County, WI. In 1855 they moved to Rice County, MN and in 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer in Wheeling, MN.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was one of the books he read twice. It stirred him. "If war comes," he said to Fingal Fingalson, his cousin, as they discussed the burning question of the day, "I'm going! "So am I," vowed Fingal, then in his eightenth year and ready for almost anything.

He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his heel in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at Annapolis, MD and in Emory Hospital, Washington, DC and was discharged there for disability on 8 January 1863. He began receiving a disability pension in April 1863.

He returned home and was a teacher in Northfield for 18 months, then was sufficiently recovered to resume farming there, which he continued to at least 1900. By 1910 he had retired in Northfield.

His service basics from Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1 and the First Minnesota database.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, also as Halvor/Halver Koi and Kvi, and his daughter Emma Quie Bonhus' family history From Lantern to Yard-light (1948), cited by Barden & Jorgenson and quoted above. His death from his pension card, online from fold3. Thanks to Tom V.G. Nilsen for his birthplace and the nudge to look further into Halvor.

He married Anna Knudsdatter Finseth (1841-1918) in December 1864 and they had 7 children.

08/11/1834; Nes, Hallingdal, Buskerud, NORWAY

09/14/1919; Dennison, MN; burial in Valley Grove Cemetery, Nerstrand, MN