TX 6th Cav Co I. CSA. Residence: Kaufman County, Texas. Born “Otto Francke Torgersen Noreodegaard” on 26 Feb 1839 at Moss, Norway. Civil War: Enlisted for one year on 12 Sep 1861 at Dallas, Texas. Private. Absent sick at Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation (now Oklahoma), 22 Dec 1861 to Feb 1862. Killed in action at Davis Mill, Mississippi, 21 Dec 1862. Sources: (“Norwegian Soldiers in Confederate Forces” by C.A.Clausen & Derwood Johnson, publ. in Norwegian-American Studies, volume 25, Northfield, Minnesota. p114) (www.borgerkrigen.info) (Ulvestad p269)
