Hans Christian Heg (December 21, 1829 – September 20, 1863) was a Norwegian American abolitionist, journalist, anti-slavery activist, politician and soldier, best known for leading the Scandinavian 15th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment on the Union side in the American Civil War.

Abolitionist who commanded a brigade at the Battle of Chickamauga, where he was killed. Lier, Norway. December 21, 1829. Chickamauga, Georgia. September 19, 1863. Hans Christian Heg was one of four children born at Lier, near Drammen, Norway, on December 21, 1829.

Col. Hans Christian Heg led the predominantly Norwegian 15th Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War. View the original source document: WHI 47408. Heg migrated to the United States from Norway as a child in 1840 and spent his youth at Muskego, in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.

2014年3月18日 · When Colonel Hans Christian Heg took time during the early stages of the Battle of Chickamauga to write to his wife Gunhild on September 18, 1863, he already knew that the fight the next day was going to be perilous. “The Rebels are in our front,” he wrote, and if they decided to fight a battle it was apt to be “a big one.”

2023年9月19日 · In the summer of 2020, the statue of Col. Hans Christian Heg—prison reformer, abolitionist, Union solider in the Civil War, and champion for his fellow Norwegian …

Col. Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863) led the predominantly Norwegian 15th Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War. Heg had migrated to the United States from Norway as a child in 1840 …

2025年2月26日 · Heg was a Norwegian American journalist, anti-slavery activist, politician and soldier, best known for leading the Scandinavian 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment in the American Civil War. He died of the wounds he received at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863 at Crawfish Springs, Walker County, Georgia.

Wisconsin Governor Randall appointed Heg a colonel on October 1, 1861, and assigned him the task of raising a Scandinavian Brigade in response to the pending war that faced their adopted country. Recent immigration from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark provided more than 75,000 able bodied citizens in 1861.

Colonel Heg's final battle was at Chickamauga on September 19, 1863. The Fifteenth Wisconsin was fully exposed to enemy fire during repeated attacks and counter attacks throughout the …

2024年8月22日 · Norwegian immigrant Hans Christian Heg led a brigade of Norwegian immigrants, the 15th Wisconsin Regiment, through some of the worst fighting in the Civil War until he was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863.