MN 2nd Battery Light Artillery. Residence: Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Born on 20 Sep 1821 at Stavonex, Sweden. Civil War: Married. Age 41. Blue eyes, blond hair, 5’4½”. Shoemaker. Enlisted Feb 1862. Discharged for disability at Keokuk, Iowa, on 3 Oct 1862, because of chronic diarrhea and heart disease. Post war: Died 22 Aug 1872. Buried Oakwood Cemetery, Red Wing, section A, lot 186. Sources: (Newsletter “Action Front”, publication of the Second Minnesota Battery Ass’n, Circular No. 90, Jun 2002. Copy in Anoka Historical Society Library, Anoka Minnesota)
