A lecture titled "Lawyers in the Civil War," delivered before the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (1961), and an outline of an address, "Whatever Happened to Ole," given before Det Norske Nationalforbund in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1963).…
Letters to his wife at Wiota, LaFayette County, Wisconsin, from a Norwegian-born farmer who enlisted February 2, 1864, with Company H of the Third Wisconsin Regiment of Infantry and was killed May 25, 1864, at Dallas, Georgia. Andreson gives…
AbstractBiographical information on a Norwegian-born rear admiral and civil engineer in the United States Navy. He was an ensign in the navy during the Civil War, and as the senior member of the Corps of Engineers, 1872-1901, was in charge of…
Translation of a poetic memoir (4 typescript pages) written in 1881 by an emigrant from Slidre, Valdres, who came to Winneshiek County, Iowa, in 1857 and later moved west. The memoir is supplemented by an account of his later years written by a…
Copy of "The Autobiography of Gulbrand O. Berge, 1827-1886." Born in Valdres, Norway, Berge emigrated in 1849 and settled near Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He served in the 37th Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War. These memoirs were published in…
Papers of a Norwegian-born farmer at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Civil War letters by Berge, other correspondence, and a poem. Berge served in Co. E, 19th Wis. Infantry. His wife was Berit Veblen Nygard.According to Robert Bjerke (Univ. of Wisc.…
Research material and working copies for Della Catuna's translation of "Colonel Heg and His Boys" by Waldemar Ager. Her translation of the Ager book was used, together with a translation by Clarence A. Clausen, for "Colonel Heg and His Boys," which…
"The Fifteenth Wisconsin," an English version of Kristofer Janson's "Femtende Wisconsin," a novel published in Copenhagen in 1887. Cleven served as minister of the American Lutheran Church in Oslo for many years.
Letters to Eriksen, farmer and merchant at Scandinavia, Wisconsin, from Lutheran clergymen regarding theological disputes; from friends and relatives concerning agricultural profits and losses; and from Civil War soldiers. The compilation volume…
An earthy and realistic account by a western Dane County, Wisconsin, farmer regarding his life in a hospital during the Civil War. He served in the Co. C, 12th Wis. Vol. Inf. As Ole Olson. Knut O. Grimstveit and family emigrated from Nissedal,…
