Civil War papers, 1861-2004

Civil War papers, 1861-2004

P0468

1861-2004

Articles, clippings, certificates, Confederate money, correspondence, pamphlets, maps, pictures, and rosters about Norwegians who participated in the Civil War. Derwood Johnson contributed information about nearly 100 Norweigan-Americans who served on the Confederate side, with copies of muster rolls from the National Archives and Texas State Archives. Wally Toensing contributed a list (31 pages) of over 800 who served in the Minnesota units. Five folders about the 15th Wisconsin Regiment, four folders of rosters and profiles of soldiers of that regiment, two folders of profiles of Norwegians who served in other units. There are folders of letters and documents concerning more than a dozen individual veterans.

Digital Collections:

• Unidentified portrait
• Formal portrait of Otto F. Steen, 1864

1.6 cubic feet (4 archives boxes) and 1 flat folder

English

Norwegian