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(1841 - 1862)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
A 21 year old farmer from Lodi, WI, he enlisted and mustered in Madison, WI on 7 February 1862 as a Private in Company H, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry.
On the Campaign
He died of disease in the Smoketown Hospital near the Antietam battlefield on 10 October 1862.
After the War
He was reinterred from his original burial at Smoketown to the National Cemetery in about 1867.
References & notes
His service basics from the State of Wisconsin,1 as Isaac Knudson, and his Compiled Service Records (CSRs).2 His burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,3 as Isaac Knutsen. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for sharing her research in his CSRs.
His brother Thomas, also in Company H, was killed at Antietam. Another brother, John, in Company A of the 7th Wisconsin, was wounded on South Mountain that September. Their father Knute was also in A of the 7th, August 1861 to March 1862.
Birth
06/16/1841; Telemark, NORWAY
Death
10/10/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD
1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, p. 369 [AotW citation 31220]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31222]
3 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869, p. 162 [AotW citation 31221]