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The Civil War letters of Colonel Hans Christian Heg

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Title	The Civil War letters of Colonel Hans Christian Heg
Source Title	The Civil War letters of Colonel Hans Christian Heg
Regiment	15th Infantry
Author/Creator	Heg, Hans Christian, 1829-1863; Blegen, Theodore Christian, 1891-1969
Description	Col. Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863) led the predominantly Norwegian 15th Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War. Heg had migrated to the United States from Norway as a child in 1840 and spent his youth at Muskego, Waukesha County. In the fall of 1861 a new Scandinavian regiment was recruited and Heg accepted appointment as its colonel. The 15th Wisconsin Infantry, made up largely of recent immigrants, fought at Island No. 10, Perryville, Stone's River, and Chickamauga, where Heg was killed while charging forward at the head of his troops. This volume contains 210 letters that he sent home during the war. They describe not only combat but also camp life, marches, slavery, and the ways that recent Scandinavian immigrants adapted to the war.
Subcollection	Personal Narratives
Source	Historical Society Library Stacks
Source Type	personal narrative
Place of Publication	Northfield, Minn.
Source Creation Date	1936
Source Publisher	Norwegian-American Historical Association
Publisher-Electronic	Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic	2011
Rights	© Copyright 2011 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin)
Digital Format	XML
Digital Identifier	CWPN012010000

Title	Title Page
Source Title	The Civil War letters of Colonel Hans Christian Heg
Volume	1
Source Type	personal narrative
Publisher-Electronic	Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic	2011
Rights	© Copyright 2011 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin)
Digital Format	JPG
Full text	THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF COLONEL HANS CHRISTIAN HEG
Digital Identifier	CWPN012010009

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