Introduction

For some time now I have been collecting information on those Belgians living in Scott County Missouri who served in the US Civil War. These men all served on the Union side; I found no indication that any Belgian from there was on the Confederate side. Moreland Township, where most of these Belgians lived, was primarily for the Union. In Edison Shrum's The History of Scott County Missouri Up to the year 1880, he says, "There were only two enclaves or islands of Union sympathizers in Scott County during the Civil War, one of these of course was the German settlement around New Hamburg, and the other was at Commerce, and north along the river to Gray's Point, where, during the 1840s and 1850s, a German settlement had developed around the then dying village of New York." Most of the people in my file lived in the New Hamburg area.

Even though I still consider this a work in progress, I decided it was time to send it on to those who may have a use for the information.

Kay Brusati

Abreviations

List of the Belgians

Sources

1	Shrum, Edison, The History of Scott County Missouri Up To The Year 1880, (3rd. Ed., Sikeston, Missouri: Scott County Historical Society, n.d. [1999])
2	1890 U.S. census, Special Schedule of surviving veterans & widows, Scott County Missouri, Supv. Dist. 2, Enum. Dist. 157 National Archives film M123, roll 28, photocopy
3	Shrum, Edison, comp., Pioneer Families of Scott County, (n.p.: Scott County Historical Society, n.d.)
4	Glastetter, Ramona Blattel, comp., Scott County Ancestor Charts, (n.p.:Scott County Historical Society, 1989)
5	John Mertens
6	Peter Thomas Civil War Pension Record (pension paid to his mother)
7	Anthony Thomas Civil War records
8	General Index to Pension Files 1861-1934, National Archives film T288
9	John Thomas record of military service, Missouri State Archives, Columbia, Missouri
10	Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri, 1888, Chicago (look up full site at Sutro?)
11	www.rootsweb.com
12	1860 U.S. census, Scott County Missouri, National Archives file M653, roll 657
13	www.ancestry.com
13a	Ancestry.com (a. U.S. N.A. Civil War Muster Rolls database online)
13b	Ancestry.com (b. other)
14	Rick Dohogne email
15	Cheri L
16	Dumey, Steve Genealogy of the John H. Dumey Family
17	Ramona Glastetter
18	1870 U.S. Census, Scott County Missouri, National Archives film M593, roll 805
19	Alan Ourth

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