- Branch of Service
- Army
- Rank
- Corporal
- Unit
- 33rd Indiana Infantry
- Conflict / Era
- Civil War
- Years of Service
- 07/21/1865
- Date of Birth
- 08/08/1844
- Date of Death
- 07/02/1913
- Hometown
- Bartholomew County, Indiana, OH
- Burial Location
- Union Twp: Milford Center
- Monument Paver
- No
- Township (entering service)
- Bartholomew County, Indiana
- Township (current / at death)
- UNKNOWN
- School
- UNKNOWN
- Status
- Prisoner of War
- When
- 03/05/1863
- Where
- Captured at Thompson's Station, TN; imprisoned at Libby and Andersonville
- Record Authenticated
- Yes
Biography
School: UNKNOWN. alternate spelling: William Tway, William Tooway; no record of POW status in military records, although regimental history indicates that most of the regiment was captured at Thompson's Station, held at Libby Prison, and exchanged on May 5, 1863 notes from Carol Mickley indicate that Williamson Tway was released from Andersonville on June 26, 1864, and then mustered out on 7/21/1865, at Louisville, KY; brother, Nelson Tway, was bodyguard to President Lincoln buried in Row 21, Milford Cemetery, Milford Center, Ohio
Source: Carol Mickley; Columbus Citizen Journal, 2/12/1930; American Civil War Research Database; American Civil War Soldiers Database; Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System; 1850 Federal Census Record; 1890 Veterans Schedule | Union Co., Ohio, Marriage Records; Obituary File, Marysville Public Library; Marysville Tribune Abstracts, 1910-1913, p. 77; Union Co. Cem. Rec., Vol. 7, p. 23; Regimental History, Civil War Archive, Indiana Infantry (Part 3); Civil War Data.com