Veterans 
Many
OLIVERS have served in the United States military at some point
in our Nation's history. By listing them here,
we honor THEM and their contributions, and perhaps provide
answers to valuable sources of genealogical information. We
salute YOU!
If you know of any other OLIVER veterans, please send their
names, data and/or stories to webmaster Kathryn Bryan at [email protected]
|
Revolutionary
War
Second
Generation: CAPT. JOHN OLIVER, Athol. 6th Company, Col. Nathan
Sparhawk's (7th Worcester Co.) regt. of Mass. militia; list of
officers chosen by several companies in said regiment, dated
Petersham, March 24, 1776; ordered in council April 16, 1776;
that said officers be commissioned; reported comissioned April 6,
1776; also, Captain Co. Sparhawk's regiment; payroll of said
Oliver's Co. made up for 3 months service in the Jerseys; warrant
allowed in Council August 12, 1777; also Captain, list of
officers appointed to command men enlisted or drafted from
Worcester Co. brigade, as returned to Maj. General Warren;
company drafted from Col. Nathan Sparhawk's regt; also Captain;
Col. Sparhawk's regt., service from Sept. 28, 1777, 28 days
including 7 days (140) miles travel home; company marched to
reinforce northern army at the time of the reduction of Gen.
Burgoyne (Massachusetts Soldiers &
Sailors)
Second Generation: JAMES OLIVER, Athol. 2nd Lt. Capt.
John Oliver's (6th) co., Col. Nathan Sparhawk's (7th Worcester Co)
regt. of Mass. militia; list of officers chosen by the several
companies in said regiment, dated Petersham, March 24, 1776;
ordered in Council April 6, 1776, that said officers be
commissioned; reported commissioned April 5, 1776; also
Lieutenant, Capt. William Marean's Co., col. Jonathan Reed's regt.;
muster roll dated Cambridge, June 1, 1778; entered service May 10,
1778.
Second Generation: LT. WILLIAM OLIVER. Return of men raised to
serve in the Continental Army from Col. James Converse's (4th)
Worcester co.) regt.; engaged for town of Oakham; joined Capt.
Holden's co., Col. Nixon's regt. term 3 years; also private Capt.
Abel Holden's Co., Col. Thomas Nixon's 5th regt. Continental Army
pay accounts for service from March 11, 1777 to July 1, 1779;
reported appointed A.D.P. Gen'l July 1, 1779.
Second Generation: ROBERT OLIVER. Athol. Private, Capt.
Ichabod Dexter's Co, Col. Doolittle's Regt, which marched on the
alarm of April 19, 1775. Serices to May 3, 1776, 13. days.
Oliver, Robert. Sargeant, Capt. Peter Woodbury;s Co, Col. Job
Cushing's Regt. engaged July 28, 1771, to reinforce the army
under Gen. Stark. Roll dated Petersham.
War of 1812
Fourth Generation. LOYAL OLIVER. Recorded as
a teamster and a minuteman for service
transporting troops, baggage and military stores of General
Pike's command from Plattsburgh to Sackett's Harbor, continued in
actual service for the term of 14 days honorbaly discharged at
Watertown, NY, March 22, 1813; member of Capt. Ezra Thurber's
Company of Militia in Col. Thomas Miller's Regt. (36th) in the
War of 1812; that said company belnged to Champlain, the frontier
town, bordering the Canada line and at the invasion of
Plattsburg, the said Company was called out into actual service
at Plattsburgh on the 20th day of July, 1813. When the British
retreated back into Canada, the said Co. returned to their homes;
further that said Co. was recalled back into service in 1814 on
the 2nd invasion by the British at Plattsburgh and said Loyal
Oliver engaged in active service to defend the same; that said
Loyal Oliver served as a minuteman previous to and at the
invasion of the British, to give the alarm should the British
cross the Canada line and invade; said Oliver was duly armed with
a US musket at his post.
Civil War
Fifth Generation. WILLIAM FORBES OLIVER, Company G, 3rd
Minnesota Volunteers, Commanded by E.W. Foster, enrolled October
19, 1861 at Wabasha, wounded in left knee and left leg at
Belmont, Kentucky 1862, discharged due to injury at Nashville, TN
October 19, 1862.
Fifth Generation: JAMES ASHLEY OLIVER, Company G, 8th Minnesota
Volunteers, enrolled August 18, 1862 at Lake City, MN, Wagoner/Teamster,
ruptured hernia while building stockade, mustered out with the
Company July 11, 1865 at Charlotte, NC.
Fifth Generation: SAMUEL D. WELCH (married to Elizabeth Amelia
Oliver). Sargeant, Company G, 8th Regiment, Minnesota Infantry,
enrolled August 16, 1862 at Lake City, MN, sick in Washington, DC
hospital June to October 1864, ill while at Murfreesboro, TN.
Honorably discharged May 12, 1865 at Washington, D.C.
Fifth Generation: GEORGE FORBES (brother to Martha H. Forbes-Oliver).
Company G, Third Minnesota Volunteers, Col. Andrews Regt.,
honorably discharged at Duvall's Bluff, Arkansas on November 14,
1864 by reason of term of service and sickness from head wound
received at Stone River, TN, causing deafness.
Fifth Generation: FRANKLIN L. WARREN (married to Margaret Ann
Oliver), 4th Regiment, Minnesota Infantry. Honorably discharged
after term of service.
Fifth Generation: CHARLES D. BRYANT (married to Mary Frances
Oliver), 6th Regiment, Minnesota Infantry. Honorably discharged
after term of service.
* Martha Forbes Oliver had at one
time during the Civil War, two sons, three son-in-laws and a
brother all in active service. It's amazing that with all the
casualties, all of her family returned home alive, however, some
were wounded and suffered life-long afflictions.
JAMES OLIVER, MD, Practicing phsycian in Athol for 50 years and
Civil War surgeon. At the 2nd Battle of Bull Run, he was left in
charge of the sick and wounded and was taken prisoner but managed
to escape. He rejoined his regiment at Alexandria and was in the
battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He was promoted to
surgeon of the 21st Massachusetts regt, May 26, 1864 and passed
through the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Bethesda
Curch and Cold Harbor. Mustered out Aug. 30, 1864 and made
assistant surgeon of the 61st Massachusetts the same year and
promoted to brigade surgeon on June 3, 1865.
(See
Ancestry, Early Life and War Record of James
Oliver, M.D., Athol Press - written by him),
Four sons of Franklin and Mary Oliver from Athol also served in
the Civil War (all grandsons of Capt. John Oliver). FRANKLIN
OLIVER, JR., member of Co. B, 27th Mass. regt. (Info on other 3
brother's regt'sand service record forthcoming).
CLARK OLIVER, grandson of Clark Oliver, Sr. from St. Albans, VT, 10th Infantry drafted, entered service in 1862 from St. Albans, Vermont. (more information coming).
 Survivors of Third Minnesota Regiment, St. Paul, MN 1888 |
World
War I
Seventh Generation. GEORGE FORBES
OLIVER. Private, 1st Company, 8th Development Battalion, Camp
Jackson, South Carolina, United States Army, inducted the 14th of
August, 1918 at Wabasha, MN and honorably discharged February 18,
1919.
(George Forbes Oliver in his World War I Uniform)
 |
GLEN MASON OLIVER (son of Hannibal & Edith Estelle Oliver)
killed in action in France, November 10, 1918, Private, Minnesota
6th Infantry, 5th Division.
World
War II
Major Milton Porter Oliver, US Marine
Corps. Joined the US Marine Corps in 1941 and served as enlisted
man during the invasion of Guadalcanal, one of the bloodiest
battles of World War II; mechanic with the famed Marine Corps
flying group known as "The Black Sheep Squadron",
commanded by "Major Pappy Boyington".
Korean War
MAJOR MILTON PORTER OLIVER, Commissioned as an officer by the
Marines and served three tours of duty in the war zone during the
Korean Conflict of 1950-1953.
Vietnam War
MAJOR
MILTON PORTER OLIVER, commissioned as an officer by the Marines
and served seven tours of duty in the war zone during Vietnam
before retiring in 1967.
Current
Other
