{"id":544,"date":"2016-03-21T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T20:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/?page_id=544"},"modified":"2016-03-25T22:58:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:58:30","slug":"civil-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/?page_id=544","title":{"rendered":"Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Civil War letters of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naha.stolaf.edu\/pubs\/nas\/volume28\/Nor-Am%20Studies%20Vol%2028%20Article%20Five.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lars and Knud Olsen Dokken<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CivilWar1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-599 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/CivilWar1.jpg\" alt=\"CivilWar1\" width=\"128\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>Lars and Knud Olsen Dokken (Kittleson) were brothers who emigrated from Norway with their family in 1857 to settle in Perry.\u00a0 Lars and Knud joined the Fifteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment in December, 1861, and February, 1862, respectively.\u00a0 Throughout the campaigns in which the Dokken brothers took part they wrote regular letters to their \u201cunforgettable parents\u201d in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/15th_Wisconsin_Volunteer_Regiment\" target=\"_blank\">15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry<\/a> &#8211; The Scandinavian Regiment<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/15thInfCrest.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-600\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-600 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/15thInfCrest.jpg\" alt=\"15thInfCrest\" width=\"127\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Civil War regiment organized by Norwegians in Madison, Wisconsin.\u00a0 A number of Perry residents were members of this regiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil War letters of Lars and Knud Olsen Dokken Lars and Knud Olsen Dokken (Kittleson) were brothers who emigrated from Norway with their family in 1857 to settle in Perry.\u00a0 Lars and Knud joined the Fifteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment in December, 1861, and February, 1862, respectively.\u00a0 Throughout the campaigns in which the Dokken brothers took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/544\/revisions\/603"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perry-wi.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}