Enlisted on 24 August 1861 at Ogden Township, Lenawee County, Michigan; he was residing in Lenawee County prior to his enlistment at 28 years of age; was mustered in on 1 September 1861 into Co. K, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, as a private; promoted to corporal on 15 September 1863; captured and imprisoned on 20 September 1863 during the Battle of Chickamauga; died of typhoid fever while a POW at Andersonville Prison.
Memorial Cenotaph
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The Andersonville records show the following.
Code No: 10121; Grave No: 121
Last Name: Brockway
First Name: Oliver W.
Rank: Corporal
Company: K
Regiment: 11
State: MI
Branch Of Service : Infantry
Date of Death: 3/23/1864
Cause of Death: Fever Typhus
Remarks* OLIVER BROCKWAY [1][2]; O. BROCKWAY, NO RANK LISTED [3] Oliver and Martin B. Brockway, Code 50759 were brothers.
Reference: p 23 [3]; p 129 [411], 11TH MI INF ADG RPT: 14
Place Captured: Chickamauga, Georgia
Date Captured: 9/19/1863
Alternate Names:
Status: Died at Andersonville
Muster date: 9/1/1861
Age at Muster: 28
More Information Available : NO
Key:
1 = Burial Register of Andersonville National Cemetery; circa 1908.
2 = Headstones of Andersonville National Cemetery; March 1990.
3 = List of Union Soldiers Buried at Andersonville; Dorence Atwater, 1865.
411 = Alphabetical General Index, Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Individual Records; Coleman C. Vaughan, 1915.
Contributor: Kevin Frye Andersonville Historian (46777922)
Memorial Cenotaph
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The Andersonville records show the following.
Code No: 10121; Grave No: 121
Last Name: Brockway
First Name: Oliver W.
Rank: Corporal
Company: K
Regiment: 11
State: MI
Branch Of Service : Infantry
Date of Death: 3/23/1864
Cause of Death: Fever Typhus
Remarks* OLIVER BROCKWAY [1][2]; O. BROCKWAY, NO RANK LISTED [3] Oliver and Martin B. Brockway, Code 50759 were brothers.
Reference: p 23 [3]; p 129 [411], 11TH MI INF ADG RPT: 14
Place Captured: Chickamauga, Georgia
Date Captured: 9/19/1863
Alternate Names:
Status: Died at Andersonville
Muster date: 9/1/1861
Age at Muster: 28
More Information Available : NO
Key:
1 = Burial Register of Andersonville National Cemetery; circa 1908.
2 = Headstones of Andersonville National Cemetery; March 1990.
3 = List of Union Soldiers Buried at Andersonville; Dorence Atwater, 1865.
411 = Alphabetical General Index, Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Individual Records; Coleman C. Vaughan, 1915.
Contributor: Kevin Frye Andersonville Historian (46777922)
Enlisted on 24 August 1861 at Ogden Township, Lenawee County, Michigan; he was residing in Lenawee County prior to his enlistment at 28 years of age; was mustered in on 1 September 1861 into Co. K, 11th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, as a private; promoted to corporal on 15 September 1863; captured and imprisoned on 20 September 1863 during the Battle of Chickamauga; died of typhoid fever while a POW at Andersonville Prison.
Memorial Cenotaph
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The Andersonville records show the following.
Code No: 10121; Grave No: 121
Last Name: Brockway
First Name: Oliver W.
Rank: Corporal
Company: K
Regiment: 11
State: MI
Branch Of Service : Infantry
Date of Death: 3/23/1864
Cause of Death: Fever Typhus
Remarks* OLIVER BROCKWAY [1][2]; O. BROCKWAY, NO RANK LISTED [3] Oliver and Martin B. Brockway, Code 50759 were brothers.
Reference: p 23 [3]; p 129 [411], 11TH MI INF ADG RPT: 14
Place Captured: Chickamauga, Georgia
Date Captured: 9/19/1863
Alternate Names:
Status: Died at Andersonville
Muster date: 9/1/1861
Age at Muster: 28
More Information Available : NO
Key:
1 = Burial Register of Andersonville National Cemetery; circa 1908.
2 = Headstones of Andersonville National Cemetery; March 1990.
3 = List of Union Soldiers Buried at Andersonville; Dorence Atwater, 1865.
411 = Alphabetical General Index, Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Individual Records; Coleman C. Vaughan, 1915.
Contributor: Kevin Frye Andersonville Historian (46777922)
Memorial Cenotaph
******************************
The Andersonville records show the following.
Code No: 10121; Grave No: 121
Last Name: Brockway
First Name: Oliver W.
Rank: Corporal
Company: K
Regiment: 11
State: MI
Branch Of Service : Infantry
Date of Death: 3/23/1864
Cause of Death: Fever Typhus
Remarks* OLIVER BROCKWAY [1][2]; O. BROCKWAY, NO RANK LISTED [3] Oliver and Martin B. Brockway, Code 50759 were brothers.
Reference: p 23 [3]; p 129 [411], 11TH MI INF ADG RPT: 14
Place Captured: Chickamauga, Georgia
Date Captured: 9/19/1863
Alternate Names:
Status: Died at Andersonville
Muster date: 9/1/1861
Age at Muster: 28
More Information Available : NO
Key:
1 = Burial Register of Andersonville National Cemetery; circa 1908.
2 = Headstones of Andersonville National Cemetery; March 1990.
3 = List of Union Soldiers Buried at Andersonville; Dorence Atwater, 1865.
411 = Alphabetical General Index, Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Individual Records; Coleman C. Vaughan, 1915.
Contributor: Kevin Frye Andersonville Historian (46777922)
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