LA 10th Inf (Orleans Blues) Co H. CSA. Residence: New Orleans, Louisiana. Born about 1810 in Norway. Civil War: Age 50. A sailor by trade. Volunteered at Camp Moore, Louisiana, on 22 Jul 1861. Private. In 1864, he was detached to serve as a nurse at the Confederate hospital in Gordonsville, Virginia. Sources: (“Lee’s Foreign Legion”, a history of the 10th Louisiana Infantry, by Thomas Walter Brooks and Michael Dan Jones. Printed by Watts Printing, Gravenhurst, Ontario. Undated. p232) (www.borgerkrigen.info)
