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Eric Bergland
5th U.S. Artillery
Corps of Engineers
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War
Battle of Fort Donelson
Battle of Shiloh
Siege of Corinth
Second Battle of Corinth
Battle of Resaca
Spouse(s)Lucy Scott McFarland Bergland

Eric Bergland (April 21, 1844 – November 3, 1918) was a Swedish-born American military officer. The son of religious refugees that brought him from Sweden to the United States, he fought in the American Civil War as a volunteer officer, graduated from West Point at the top of his class, served his adopted country with distinction as an officer of the regular army, a professor of his Alma Mater, and a Western explorer, and married a cousin of the wife of president Rutherford B. Hayes.

Early life

Bergland was the son of Anders Olsson Berglund, a farmer who became a follower of the charismatic revivalist

apprentice in the printing office of the Swedish language paper Svenska Republikanaren in Galva. When the paper was moved to Chicago, the Bishop Hill Colony, who owned the printing press, made him manager of the office that remained in Galva.[2]

Civil War

When the

West Point. He took an extension on the appointment, remained on the rolls of the regiment, but served as a military engineer in Ohio till the end of the war.[3][4][5][6]

Military career

Bergland graduated from West Point in 1869, at the top of his class. His place on the graduation list would have given him a commission in the Corps of Engineers, but all the billets were full, and he became a Second Lieutenant in the 5th Artillery. While at this regiment, he participated in the 1870 U.S. Army intervention to prevent

Corp's School of Application. The last years of his military career Bergland spent as a lighthouse engineer. He was promoted to Major in 1895, and retired a year later. In his retirement, the family lived in Baltimore.[2][7][8][9]

Family life

Bergland married Lucy Scott McFarland in 1878. She was a

obstetrician.[12]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Olsson & Wikén 1995, p. 299.
  2. ^ a b c Johnson & Peterson 1880, pp. 301-302.
  3. ^ Johnson & Peterson 1880, pp. 55-58.
  4. ^ Cluett 1886, p. 121.
  5. ^ "Obituary of Eric Bergland", Annual Report, 1919, pp. 137-138.
  6. ^ Kastrup 1975, p. 284.
  7. ^ Heitman 1903, vol. 1, p. 213.
  8. ^ "Eric Bergland". Cullum's Register. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  9. ^ Bartlett 1962, p. 353.
  10. ^ "Eric Bergland & Lucy McFarland". Family Cards. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  11. ^ Princeton Alumni Weekly, Jan. 25, 1954, p. 25.
  12. ^ "John McFarland Bergland." The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions: Portrait Collection. Retrieved 2017-05-31.

Cited literature

  • Annual report of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. [cited as Annual Report]
  • Bartlett, Richard A. (1962). Great Surveys of the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Cluett, Willian W. (1886), History of the 57th regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Princeton, Illinois: T.P. Streeter.
  • Johnson, Eric & C. F. Peterson (1880). Svenskarne i Illinois. Chicago: Williamsson.
  • Heitman, Francis B. (1903). Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army. Washington: Government Printing Office.
  • Kastrup, Allan (1975). The Swedish Heritage in America. Minneapolis: Swedish Council of America.
  • Olsson, Nils William & Erik Wikén (1995). Swedish Passenger Arrivals in the United States 1820-1850. Stockholm: Acta Bibliothecæ Regiæ Stockholmensis.
  • Princeton Alumni Weekly.

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