Heg
From Norwegian Immigrant to Civil War Hero

Here is a dramatization of the courageous story of Hans Christian Heg, Wisconsin's greatest war hero of Norwegian-American heritage.

Heg was a humane politican-solidier who loved his country with the ideals of liberty and community bought so dearly by the renaissance revolutionaries of the 18th Century who founded it.

The story begins when the 11-year-old Heg gazes upon the Wisconsin settlement of Wind Lake for the first time after coming from Norway. Through the letters to his wife, Gunhild, we follow Heg's life through several Civil War battles until he is fatally wounded by a Confederate sharpshooter at Chickamauga.

This historical novel is an examination of Heg's time but also of our own patriotism.

Steve Fortney is a retired Norwegian-American teacher who lives in Stoughton, Wisconsin.

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