OLSON, Nils

WI 15th Inf Co D. Residence: Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Civil War: Age 42. Married. Enlisted for three years on 25 Oct 1861 at Oconomowoc, and mustered at Madison, Wisconsin, 8 Dec 1861. Private. Sick at Mississippi River Island No. 10, on 11 Jun 1862. Absent with the commissary supply train during July 1862. Sick in Iuka, Mississippi, 20 Aug 1862. Died of disease at U. S. General Hospital in Jackson, Tennessee, 22 Sep 1862. Buried in National Cemetery at Corinth, Mississippi. Sources: (WHS Series 1200 boxes 76-6, 77-8, 78-3; red book vol 20 p62) (Buslett p453) (Ager p302)