From the Civil War database on www.vesterheim.org:

MOLSTAD, Anton T.
WI 5th Inf Re-organized Co G. Residence: Christiania, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Born in Toten, Norway. Civil War: Farmer. Age 19. Blue eyes, sandy hair, sandy complexion, 5’8”. Enlisted for one year on 13 Sep 1864 at La Crosse, Wisconsin. Mustered there the same day. Private. Mustered out 20 Jun 1865. Sources: (WHS red book vol 10b p278) (Ulvestad p310)

Does anyone know subsequent history of this fellow? Did he marry? Have children? If so, who were they?

I am looking for ancestors of a Smith Molstad, born in Wisconsin in 1867 and therefore about the right age and in roughly the right place to be Anton's son. It's a long shot, I know, but I thought I'd ask.

Smith and his wife Dorthea (b. 1870 in Norway) lived in Pleasant Township, Winneshiek County, Iowa, in 1910. By 1920, they had moved to Trempealeau or Jackson County, Wisconsin.

They had several children, including Emma (1895-1966), Melvin (1895-1931), Selmer E. (1896-1952), Gertrude (1899-1938), and Lulla (1899-1915).

Smith died in 1924. Dorthea died in 1937. They are buried in Pine Cliff Cemetery, Galesville, Wisconsin.