Ezekiel Madison BROCKMAN

1. The 1900 census indicated 2 children for this family but only 1 alive.

Enumerated with William Lewis Brockman and his family.

2. According to a "power of attorney" found in the Western Manuscript

Collection at the U. MO, Ezekiel was living in Napello county, Iowa

on 2 Aug 1866: "Know all men by these presents that I E.M. Brockman of

the county of Nepello and State of Iowa, reposing special trust &

confidence in John T. Brockman of the county of Chariton in the

State of Missouri, do by these presents make, constitute and app-

oint him the said John T. Brockman for me in my name to demand and

receive of payments, etc. any & all moneys which may be due to

me for services in company "I" 35th Regiment Missouri enrolled

Militia. Also I do hereby authorize my said attorney for me and in

my name to execute any and all receipts and other papers which may be

necessary to be executed in the payment of such due, and my said

attorney is hereby further authorized to do and perform any and all

other acts and things which may be necessary to the end that I may

receive thro him any such money and that the officer paying the same

may receive full and complete receipts and vouchers for the payments so

made. And I do hereby engage to notify and confirm all that my said

attorney may lawful do in my name in this premmis.

Witness my hand and seal hereto affixed. Due at Ottmuwa,

Iowa, the 2nd day of August 1966.

E.M. Brockman

3. Ezekiel's military service in the CSA included:

---enlisted in Company D of Poindexter's Regiment of Missouri Calvary.

He was a private.

---He was captured at Stoddard, Missouri in Chariton county 18 Aug 1862

and was sent to the Gratiot Street Military Prison in St. Louis on

31 Aug 1862. He was listed as a guerrilla on the record.

---Was first sent to Alton, IL on 11 Sep 1862 and then to Sandusky, OH

(Johnson's Island) on 14 Nov 1862.

---Transferred to Vicksburg, MS and exchanged with Union prisoners on

22 Nov 1862.

---Joined Company D of Searcy's Batallion of Missouri Sharpshooters's

(with his father and brother, John Tandy), surrendered with this

outfit at New Orleans, LA on 26 May 1865 and was paroled at

Alexandria, LA 7 Jun 1865.

4. Was living alone according to the 1920 census.

5. The records for the Fitzgerald Cemetery in Chariton co., MO show that

Thomas P. Brockman was a son of "F.M. and L.J." This is probably a mistake

and should be E.M. and L.J.

SOURCES INCLUDE:

1880 Chariton county, MO census, page 461, [ED 164.46].

1900 Vernon county, MO census, Lake twp. [ED 132.7].

1910 Mora county, NM census [ED 134, Sheet 7B].

1920 Mills, Mora county, NM census [ED119, page 15A].

Madelyn T. Gould, 474 Tallwood Drive, Stone Mountain,

GA 30083.

Copies of military cards from the National Archives.

Eakin, Joanne Chiles.

New Mexico Death Index.

1995. Missouri Prisoners of War.

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