(1840-1865)
 

Belgians in
the Civil War

Those pages are dedicated to the story of the Belgians having be involved in the American Civil War:
Immigrants, sons of immigrants, soldiers of fortune or idealists fighting for their ideas. Volunteers  or drafted, I'll try to put here all I'll find of these men in their new country or in their old one.

Emigrants arrival

- Between 1820 and 1865, by year and by ship, the arrival of Belgian travelers and emigrants in the U.S.A. 
- Documents and testimonies related to their emigration.
- Official representatives from Belgium in the USA.

Emigrants arrival
 Index

- The Belgian emigrants, alphabetically referenced from 1820 to 1870 by port of arrival

Belgians in America

- The Belgian settlers from the censuses of 1850 and 1860 and 1870, transcribed by County/State. 
- Biographies of settlers and histories of settlements by County/State.
- Statistics of their numbers from various sources. 

Censuses
Index

- The Belgian born people, alphabetically referenced for the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses.

Sources

- Sources available upon the story of those Belgians.
- On-line reproduction of private and official documents, archives and books

Links

- web sites related to the data found in this one.