Ammund Larsen (Note the Danish spelling of the name "sen" instead of "son". Norway was under the heel of Denmark over 400 years, and as Bjørnesterne Bjørnson calls the period in his book: "the 400 years long night". Very little is known about Ammund (1823-1865). The people were beginning to migrate to America in the 1820's. Glowing reports were coming from the early migrants, and Ammund Larsen, an ambitious and daring young man, his wife and two small children, left Norway on a small sailing vessel bound for Winneshiek County, Iowa in 1855. It took several months to reach their destination, which can now be made by jet plane in a few hours. A brother and a sister, Marie, (Mrs. Chris. Christiansen), were living in Big Canoe, Iowa (now called Locust) a few miles northeast of Decorah, Iowa.
He worked for awhile for settlers there to gain a few dollars, as his cash resources were about gone. There were no homestead lands available in the area, so they left for Belvidere in Goodhue County, Minnesota. There he found a 160 acre tract of land which he filed on. Here they prospered, but it was not to last more than eight or nine years for Ammund. The Civil War was on and he was finally drafted into the Infantry of the Northern Army. The march from Atlanta to the Sea was no picnic junket, as can be proven by other sources. Letters written by other soldiers to their families reveal the hardships the soldiers suffered. They marched through swamps, and camped in low swampy areas for several days near Savannah. They were starved men. Many suffered from malarial fever, diarrhea and the cold weather, which froze the water in their canteens on several occasions. Sometimes, the men were on their feet for twenty-four hours at a time. When Ammund Larsen returned to his home in Belvidere, he was so emaciated and sickly-looking that his wife did not recognize him at first glance. When he left home to report for duty, he was a well-built, square-shouldered man, with strong, well-developed muscles – no wonder his wife did not know the man. He was a strong, rugged and healthy man when he answered the draft call in June 1864, and was mustered out of service and sent home from Savannah Georgia in the Spring of 1865, sick unto death with malarial fever, and died in September of that year.
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Marriage 9 Apr 1848
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/516/120
Emigration dated 26 Mar 1855 in church book from Hurdal.
Parents with two children.
(See #6-9, right-hand side):
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/516/202
(Contributor: Torkel(48106268) - 31Oct2023)
He worked for awhile for settlers there to gain a few dollars, as his cash resources were about gone. There were no homestead lands available in the area, so they left for Belvidere in Goodhue County, Minnesota. There he found a 160 acre tract of land which he filed on. Here they prospered, but it was not to last more than eight or nine years for Ammund. The Civil War was on and he was finally drafted into the Infantry of the Northern Army. The march from Atlanta to the Sea was no picnic junket, as can be proven by other sources. Letters written by other soldiers to their families reveal the hardships the soldiers suffered. They marched through swamps, and camped in low swampy areas for several days near Savannah. They were starved men. Many suffered from malarial fever, diarrhea and the cold weather, which froze the water in their canteens on several occasions. Sometimes, the men were on their feet for twenty-four hours at a time. When Ammund Larsen returned to his home in Belvidere, he was so emaciated and sickly-looking that his wife did not recognize him at first glance. When he left home to report for duty, he was a well-built, square-shouldered man, with strong, well-developed muscles – no wonder his wife did not know the man. He was a strong, rugged and healthy man when he answered the draft call in June 1864, and was mustered out of service and sent home from Savannah Georgia in the Spring of 1865, sick unto death with malarial fever, and died in September of that year.
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Marriage 9 Apr 1848
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/516/120
Emigration dated 26 Mar 1855 in church book from Hurdal.
Parents with two children.
(See #6-9, right-hand side):
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/516/202
(Contributor: Torkel(48106268) - 31Oct2023)
Ammund Larsen (Note the Danish spelling of the name "sen" instead of "son". Norway was under the heel of Denmark over 400 years, and as Bjørnesterne Bjørnson calls the period in his book: "the 400 years long night". Very little is known about Ammund (1823-1865). The people were beginning to migrate to America in the 1820's. Glowing reports were coming from the early migrants, and Ammund Larsen, an ambitious and daring young man, his wife and two small children, left Norway on a small sailing vessel bound for Winneshiek County, Iowa in 1855. It took several months to reach their destination, which can now be made by jet plane in a few hours. A brother and a sister, Marie, (Mrs. Chris. Christiansen), were living in Big Canoe, Iowa (now called Locust) a few miles northeast of Decorah, Iowa.
He worked for awhile for settlers there to gain a few dollars, as his cash resources were about gone. There were no homestead lands available in the area, so they left for Belvidere in Goodhue County, Minnesota. There he found a 160 acre tract of land which he filed on. Here they prospered, but it was not to last more than eight or nine years for Ammund. The Civil War was on and he was finally drafted into the Infantry of the Northern Army. The march from Atlanta to the Sea was no picnic junket, as can be proven by other sources. Letters written by other soldiers to their families reveal the hardships the soldiers suffered. They marched through swamps, and camped in low swampy areas for several days near Savannah. They were starved men. Many suffered from malarial fever, diarrhea and the cold weather, which froze the water in their canteens on several occasions. Sometimes, the men were on their feet for twenty-four hours at a time. When Ammund Larsen returned to his home in Belvidere, he was so emaciated and sickly-looking that his wife did not recognize him at first glance. When he left home to report for duty, he was a well-built, square-shouldered man, with strong, well-developed muscles – no wonder his wife did not know the man. He was a strong, rugged and healthy man when he answered the draft call in June 1864, and was mustered out of service and sent home from Savannah Georgia in the Spring of 1865, sick unto death with malarial fever, and died in September of that year.
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Marriage 9 Apr 1848
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/516/120
Emigration dated 26 Mar 1855 in church book from Hurdal.
Parents with two children.
(See #6-9, right-hand side):
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/516/202
(Contributor: Torkel(48106268) - 31Oct2023)
He worked for awhile for settlers there to gain a few dollars, as his cash resources were about gone. There were no homestead lands available in the area, so they left for Belvidere in Goodhue County, Minnesota. There he found a 160 acre tract of land which he filed on. Here they prospered, but it was not to last more than eight or nine years for Ammund. The Civil War was on and he was finally drafted into the Infantry of the Northern Army. The march from Atlanta to the Sea was no picnic junket, as can be proven by other sources. Letters written by other soldiers to their families reveal the hardships the soldiers suffered. They marched through swamps, and camped in low swampy areas for several days near Savannah. They were starved men. Many suffered from malarial fever, diarrhea and the cold weather, which froze the water in their canteens on several occasions. Sometimes, the men were on their feet for twenty-four hours at a time. When Ammund Larsen returned to his home in Belvidere, he was so emaciated and sickly-looking that his wife did not recognize him at first glance. When he left home to report for duty, he was a well-built, square-shouldered man, with strong, well-developed muscles – no wonder his wife did not know the man. He was a strong, rugged and healthy man when he answered the draft call in June 1864, and was mustered out of service and sent home from Savannah Georgia in the Spring of 1865, sick unto death with malarial fever, and died in September of that year.
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Marriage 9 Apr 1848
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/516/120
Emigration dated 26 Mar 1855 in church book from Hurdal.
Parents with two children.
(See #6-9, right-hand side):
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/516/202
(Contributor: Torkel(48106268) - 31Oct2023)
