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31st Missouri Infantry

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Company Unknown

Private

The data that's available was found in the files of ancestry.com
Contributor Albert EaganDate added 4/16/2014

Company B

Private

Great-Great- Great-Great Uncle
Contributor robert caudleDate added 7/30/2004

Company B

Rank unknown

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Eric HansonDate added 5/12/2006

Company C

Private

JOHN THOMAS BELLFIELD WAS THE ELDEST SON OF THOMAS BELLFIELD AND MATILDA E. COPELAND BELLFIELD. HE WAS BORN IN OLDHAM COUNTY, KENTUCKY IN 1843. HIS PARENTS HAD MOVED TO BRETON, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MISSOURI BY 1850 U. S. FEDERAL CENSUS. HE ENLISTED IN THE 31ST MO INFANTRY, ON AUGUST 6, 1862. HE DIED AT YOUNG'S POINT, LA OF (DIPTHERIA) ON 29 JAN 1863 AT THE AGE OF TWENTY. BURIAL SITE UNKNOWN. REFERENCES: CIVIL WAR SERVICE RECORD, BELLFIELD, JOHN THOMAS, NATIONAL ARCHIVES.
Contributor BECKY WOODSDate added 1/29/2008

Company C

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Burl L BrooksDate added 3/22/2010

Company C

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Burl L BrooksDate added 3/22/2010

Company C

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Alan BurtonDate added 8/17/2014

Company C

Rank unknown

Buried at Hopewell Cemetery, Hopewell, Missouri. Died February 27, 1863 at age 18 years, 8 months.
Contributor Gary BenningtonDate added 7/8/2008

Company D

Private

Thomas J. Walters my great grandfather he joined the 31st Infantry and fought with them through all the major conflicts till muster out in 1865. He returned to Macon county, Missouri. He is listed in the 1870 census owning a large farm by 1880 however after the panic, his children are living with relatives,he is listed as divorced, his wife is living with her mother and father and is listed as a widow, he is listed as a coal miner. He died at age 92. I regret not knowing this until recently I would have enjoyed quizzing my mom for her memories of grandpa Thomas. Larry Sears
Contributor Larry SearsDate added 9/26/2004

Company E

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Danny AndersonDate added 7/10/2009

Company E

2nd Lieutenant

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Kathy Briggs LitsterDate added 3/14/2007

Company E

Private

James Francis Miller b. 1835 in Athens, Tennessee d. 1917 in Belgrade, Missouri (Buried at Bennett Bryan Cem.)
Contributor Rodney Wilson (gg grandson)Date added 12/4/2009

Company F

Corporal

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Chris FluhartyDate added 5/28/2006

Company F

Major

Maternal Grandmothers grandfather buried in Decatur Texas 1903 Widow Virginia buried Apache Oklahoma with son James Shardrack Cuthbertson
Contributor James RobertsonDate added 10/6/2005

Company F

Private

James served in the 31st Missouri Volunteers Infantry and died following the Battle of Vicksburg. He died on 13 Aug 1863 from edema or dropsy. The family story is that his mother said, 'My dear son died as a result of poor sanitary conditions, lack of nourishing food, and poor medical care.' James' parents were my second great grandparents, and James was my second greatuncle.
Contributor Edward CarronDate added 2/12/2009

Company F

Private

My Great Great Grandfather. If any one has any info on him I would love to have it. Thanks
Contributor Dorothy RyckmanDate added 8/16/2006

Company F

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Gary L. ScheelDate added 3/12/2004

Company F

Private

Died 8 January 1863 of disease on Steamer Isabelle. No idea where he is buried. He was brother of Fielding Jenkins Smith
Contributor Gary L. ScheelDate added 2/11/2006

Company H

Private

Enlisted at Greenville, Mo 21 Aug 1862. John A. Woolard wounded at battle of Chickasaw Bayou 29 Dec 1862.Sent to Lawson hospital in St.Louis. Transfered to VRC April 1864 but never reported.
Contributor Robert WeeksDate added 8/13/2012

Company I

Private

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Mark TischDate added 7/24/2010

Company I

Captain

No family notes have been added.
Contributor Leland GroomsDate added 9/15/2004

Company K

Private

Gideon Stump was my great grand-uncle. He died on the hospital boat Henry Von Phul, 26 Jan 1863 of wounds received in action in the Battle of Arkansas Point at Fort Hindman. No record of his burial site has been found.
Contributor Merrilee GibsonDate added 8/17/2015

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