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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Thomas Knutson

(1839 - 1862)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 2nd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

He arrived with his family from Europe in 1846. He enlisted in Lodi on 24 April 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company H, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry on 11 June in Madison.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

After the War

He was reinterred from his original burial on the Antietam battlefield to the National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

His burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records.2 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for sharing her research in his CSRs.

His brother Isaac, also in Company H, died of disease a few weeks later. Another brother, John, in Company A, 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

06/12/1839; Telemark, NORWAY

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869  [AotW citation 3747]

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 31223]