Norwegians in the Civil War

LANDRUD, Knud Knudsen

WI 15th Inf. Residence: Primrose, Dane County, Wisconsin. Born 1841 in Rollag, Norway. Came to America at age one with his parents, Knud Nielsen Landrud and Ingeborg Herbrandsdatter Ødegaard. Civil War: Private. Post war: Lived at Primrose, Wisconsin. Sources: (Ulvestad p303) (“The 1842 Immigrants from Norway”, by Gerhard Naeseth, North American Studies, vol 25, p243) (“Notes of a Civil War Soldier“ by Bersven Nelson, publ. in Norwegian-American Studies, vol 26, by NAHA, 1974, p 127,129) “Landrew, Niels. K.”