A collection of Civil War-era Letters written by Hans Christian Heg, who grew up in southeastern Norway, migrated to Wisconsin, and traveled to the gold fields of California and the mining camps of the West, only to return to the Badger State to lead a Regiment of Scandinavian immigrants--the Fifteenth Wisconsin--in the Civil War.
However, his life story typifies the processes of transition and servic.
His achievements are well known among Norwegian-Americans but little known outside that circle.
A collection of Civil War-era Letters written by Hans Christian Heg, who grew up in southeastern Norway, migrated to Wisconsin, and traveled to the gold fields of California and the mining camps of the West, only to return to the Badger State to lead a Regiment of Scandinavian immigrants--the Fifteenth Wisconsin--in the Civil War