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94 COLONEL HANS C. HEG
I have heard from Island No 10 that Ole has come back and I expect him here every day. The two companies that are left there will be here in a short time I think. Where we will go to from here, nobody knows. We may lay here a month, and we may not lay a week. H
I send you a copy of the " Jay hawkers Dixie." They are camped right by [the] side of us. They came up and sere¬ naded me last night, and sang Dixie & John Brown, and I had to make a speech to the boys.^ The Jay Hawkers and Skandinaves, are the best friends in the world. The Jay Hawkers came up to some of our boys yesterday and pro¬ posed to go in partnership with them, for thry said we could beat them steal[ing] honey. Our boys found a place where there was 5 or 6 Bee hives, and the Jay Hawkers were watch¬ ing the hives till it should get dark so the Bees would be in, but some of the Skandinaves pitched right in, and never cared for the Bees, and took all the honey. The Jay hawk¬ ers are noted for stealing niggers, and for troubeling the rebels, more than anybody els. Doc Himoe has found many of his Kansas friends down here.
The soldiers are having exelent times. They have plenty of honey, apples. Blackberries and almost every thing els in the shape of eatables. Thier health was never better. Chickins, Sheep, lambs & Pigs, belonging to rebels, suffer awfully. I do not think we have any prospect for a fight, unless we should be moved towards Washington. Our Regi¬ ment stands very high now in the estimation of the General officers in command at present. I am next in command to Gen' Mitchell, and in his absence I am the commander of the Brigade.
He is very unpopular with the most of the Regiments, and will have a good deal of trouble with some of them. Mit-
° The " Jayhawkers " referred to by Colonel Heg probably were soldiers of the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, commanded by Colonel A. L. Lee. On the name and its association with violence and pillage in the free soil conflicts in the Kansas and Missouri border country, see Kansas State Historical Society, Col¬ lections, 14:203-207.
Object Description
| 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 |
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| Title | 94 |
| 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 | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
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| Full text | 94 COLONEL HANS C. HEG I have heard from Island No 10 that Ole has come back and I expect him here every day. The two companies that are left there will be here in a short time I think. Where we will go to from here, nobody knows. We may lay here a month, and we may not lay a week. H I send you a copy of the " Jay hawkers Dixie." They are camped right by [the] side of us. They came up and sere¬ naded me last night, and sang Dixie & John Brown, and I had to make a speech to the boys.^ The Jay Hawkers and Skandinaves, are the best friends in the world. The Jay Hawkers came up to some of our boys yesterday and pro¬ posed to go in partnership with them, for thry said we could beat them steal[ing] honey. Our boys found a place where there was 5 or 6 Bee hives, and the Jay Hawkers were watch¬ ing the hives till it should get dark so the Bees would be in, but some of the Skandinaves pitched right in, and never cared for the Bees, and took all the honey. The Jay hawk¬ ers are noted for stealing niggers, and for troubeling the rebels, more than anybody els. Doc Himoe has found many of his Kansas friends down here. The soldiers are having exelent times. They have plenty of honey, apples. Blackberries and almost every thing els in the shape of eatables. Thier health was never better. Chickins, Sheep, lambs & Pigs, belonging to rebels, suffer awfully. I do not think we have any prospect for a fight, unless we should be moved towards Washington. Our Regi¬ ment stands very high now in the estimation of the General officers in command at present. I am next in command to Gen' Mitchell, and in his absence I am the commander of the Brigade. He is very unpopular with the most of the Regiments, and will have a good deal of trouble with some of them. Mit- ° The " Jayhawkers " referred to by Colonel Heg probably were soldiers of the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, commanded by Colonel A. L. Lee. On the name and its association with violence and pillage in the free soil conflicts in the Kansas and Missouri border country, see Kansas State Historical Society, Col¬ lections, 14:203-207. |
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| Type | Text |