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(1838 - 1908)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Wisconsin Infantry
Before Antietam
A 23 year old farmer from Dekorra, WI, he enlisted on 12 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 16 August. He may have been wounded in the left foot by a buckshot at Gainesville (Brawner's Farm), VA on 28 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his chest and left lung in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 17 September and sent on to Baltimore on the 19th. He was treated at the McKim Mansion General Hospital in Baltimore, MD and was was discharged there for disability on 14 December 1862. He began receiving a veteran's disability pension in March 1864.
After the War
By 1885 he was back in Dekorra and in 1895 he was living at Okee, nearby in Columbia County. In 1900 he was again a farmer in Dekorra. He died of cancer of the jaw there in 1908, 2 days after his 70th birthday.
References & notes
His service from the State of Wisconsin1 and his Compiled Service Records.2 Wound and hospital details also from the Patient List,3 as John Knutsen. Personal details from family genealogists, also as John Knuteson and Knutesen, the US Census of 1900, and the Wisconsin State Census of 1885 & 1895. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for sharing her research in his CSRs and pension files.
He married Randa Hellen Johnson (1838-1915) in January 1864 and they had 4 children between 1866 and 1882.
His brothers Isaac and Thomas were in Company H, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry; Isaac died of disease a few weeks after Antietam, Thomas was killed there. Their father Knute was also in Company A of the 7th Wisconsin, August 1861 to March 1862.
Birth
02/19/1838; Telemark, NORWAY
Death
02/21/1908; Dekorra, WI; burial in Dekorra Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery, Dekorra, WI
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, pp. 540 - 543 [AotW citation 10532]
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 31224]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #65 [AotW citation 31225]