34th Regiment Co. B
"The Sandy Run Yellow Jackets"








34th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry 

34th Infantry Regiment was assembled at High Point, North Carolina, 
in October, 1861. Its members were recruited in the counties of Ashe, 
Rutherford, Rowan, Lincoln, Cleveland, Mecklenburg, and Montgomery. 
After serving in the Department of North Carolina, it was sent to Virginia 
and placed in General Pender's and Scales' Brigade. The 34th was active 
in the many campaigns of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold 
Harbor and later participated in the Petersburg siege south of the James 
River and the operations around Appomattox. It reported 53 killed and 
158 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, 2 killed and 23 wounded at 
Second Manassas, 2 killed and 17 wounded at Fredericksburg , and 18 
killed, and 110 wounded, and 20 missing at Chancellorsville. Of the 310 
engaged at Gettysburg, twenty-one percent were disabled. It surrendered 
21 officers and 145 men. The field officers were Colonels Collet Leventhorpe, 
William Lee J. Lowrance, and Richard H. Riddick; Lieutenant Colonels 
George T. Gordon, Charles J. Hammerskold, William A. Houck, John L. 
McDowell, and George M. Norment; and Majors George M. Clark, Joseph 
B. McGee, Eli H. Miller, William A. Owens, Martin Shoffner, and Francis 
L. Twitty. 


OFFICERS

EDWARDS, John, Captain, from Rutherford County, died 11 April 1862 

BYERS, Joseph, 1st Lieutenant, from Rutherford County

EDWARDS, William D, 2nd Lieutenant, from Rutherford County

HARRELL, William H, 1st Sergeant, from Rutherford County

STROUD, Thomas J, 2nd Sergeant, from Cleveland County

BEDFORD, Seth, 3rd Sergeant, from Rutherford County

DOBBINS, Felix C, 4th Sergeant, from Cleveland County

EDWARDS, John N, 5th Sergeant, from Rutherford County

WRIGHT, Jacob A, 1st Corporal, from Cleveland County, died 6 August 1862

PHILBECK, John P, 2nd Corporal, from Cleveland County, wounded at Chancellorsville

LOOKADOO, George, 3rd Corporal, from Rutherford County, died of wounds received at Ox Hill, VA 

DAVIS, Simon D, 4th Corporal, from Cleveland County, wounded at Fraziers Farm, VA

PRIVATES

ALLEN, James Mc, from Rutherford County 

ALLEN, Samuel T

BEAM, Martin L, from Cleveland County

BEAM, William P, from Rutherford County, wounded at Gettysburg

BEAM, David, from Rutherford County, died 11 March 1862 at Goldsboro, NC

BEDFORD, John H, from Rutherford County, died 17 April 1862 at Goldsboro, NC

BLANKENSHIP, W

BLANTON, S T, from Rutherford County,

BOWEN, Daniel A, from Cleveland County

BRIDGES, David, from Cleveland County

BRIDGES, Greenberry, from Rutherford County, killed 30 June 1862

BRIDGES, J H, from Cleveland County

BRIDGES, L D, from Cleveland County, killed at Fraziers Farm

BRIDGES, Washington W, from Cleveland County, wounded at Ox Hill

BRIDGES, Wiley, from Rutherford County, died January 1863

BRIDGES, William, from Rutherford County, wounded at Fraziers Farm

BRILES, Oliver P, died 12 October 1864

BROOKS, Samuel, from Rutherford County, wounded at Fraziers Farm

BROOKS, William, from Rutherford County

CHAMPION, George, from Wake County

COOPER, Thomas

CRATER, David

CRATER, Matthew, from Rutherford County

CRATER, William

DAILY, Joel J, from Rutherford County

DAVIS, Abraham Hamby, from Cleveland County, wounded at Gaines Mill 

DAVIS, John H, from Rutherford County, wounded at Fredericksburg 

DAVIS, Whilton O, from Rutherford County, wounded at Gettysburg  

DEPRIEST, James R, from Rutherford County

DOBBINS, Daniel, from Rutherford County, died 1 March 1863

DOBBINS, James L, from Cleveland County, wounded at Fraziers Farm,
killed 17 August 1862

DOBBINS, Jesse C, from Cleveland County

DOTY, Osborn M, from Cleveland County, died August 1862

DYCUS, Anselem N, from Cleveland County

EDWARDS, Joseph M, from Rutherford County, died 2 March 1862 at Goldsboro, NC

EDWARDS, Zachariah, from Rutherford County

FRANK, R B, from Rutherford County

GETTYS, Alfred W, from Rutherford County, died 25 April 1862 at Goldsboro, NC

GETTYS, Lawson G, from Rutherford County, died 25 April 1862 at Goldsboro, NC

GREEN, Earl

GREEN, Elias, from Cleveland County

GREEN, Francis M, from Rutherford County, wounded at Gaines Mill

GREEN, Martin A, from Rutherford County

GREEN, W, from Cleveland County

GREEN, William R, from Rutherford County

HAMRICK, Amos, from Rutherford County

HAMRICK, Doctor N, from Rutherford County

HAMRICK, E, from Rutherford County

HAMRICK, E O, from Cleveland County, wounded at Chancellorsville

HAMRICK, Eli, from Rutherford County

HAMRICK, Eli O, from Rutherford County

HAMRICK, Greenberry, from Rutherford County, died 18 January 1862 in Raleigh, NC

HAMRICK, Jason, from Rutherford County, died 28 August 1862

HAMRICK, Lewis M, from Rutherford County, died 29 January 1863

HARRILL, David B, from Rutherford County 

HARRILL, Drury, from Rutherford County, killed at Mechanicsville

HARRILL, George, from Rutherford County, died 21 January 1862 at Goldsboro, NC

HARRILL, John, from Rutherford County

HOGUE, David, from Rutherford County

HOLLYFIELD, Jacob, from Rutherford County

HULES, William T, from Rutherford County

HUNTSINGER, John L, from Rutherford County, died of wounds received at 
Fraziers Farm

JAMES, Robert G, from Rutherford County, wounded at Gettysburg

JAMES, W A, from Cleveland County, wounded at Chancellorsville

JONES, Sterling, from Cleveland County

JONES, William A, from Cleveland County

LECILOFF, Phillip

LOOKADOO, John, from Rutherford County, died 31 August 1862 

LOVELACE, D, from Rutherford County

LUCAS, J A, from Cleveland County, killed at Chancellorsville

MCDANIEL, James C, from Rutherford County

MCDANIEL, Joseph J, from Rutherford County

MCDANIEL, J M, from Rutherford County

MCKINNEY, Burnice, from Cleveland County, died 23 September 1863 

MCKINNEY, J C, from Cleveland County, died 17 June 1863

MCSWAIN, William, from Rutherford County

MELTON, Barney, from Rutherford County, died at Goldsboro, NC

MELTON, Reuben, from Rutherford County, died 1 January 1863 at Richmond, VA

MINTZ, John V, from Rutherford County

MOORE, John A, from Rutherford County

MOORE, John H, from Rutherford County

OWENS, Andrew, from Rutherford County, killed at Fraziers Farm

OWENS, Willis, from Rutherford County

PENSON, G W, from Cleveland County

PHILBECK, Benjamin E, from Cleveland County, died May 1862

PHILBECK, W A, from Cleveland County

PRICE, R M, from Rutherford County, died 5 July 1862

PRICE, Spencer L, from Rutherford County, died 30 June 1863

ROBBINS, James, from Rutherford County

ROBERTS, Walter Raleigh, from Rutherford County
Private Roberts survived the war and is buried at Mount Pleasant Baptist 
Church cemetery in Cleveland County, NC. 

RODGERS, William, from Rutherford County, died 8 January 1863

ROLLINS, R

RUDD, Thomas, from Rutherford County

SCOGGINS, John L, from Cleveland County

SIZEMORE, George W

SMART, Oliver P, from Rutherford County

SMART, William B, from Rutherford County, wounded at Chancellorsville

SPARKS, Caleb L, from Rutherford County, wounded at Chancellorsville

SPARKS, John L, from Rutherford County, died 21 January 1862 at Goldsboro

STATHER, Noah

STATHER, Thomas

SWEEZY, George, from Rutherford County, killed at Ox Hill

WALKER, J B

WALL, Harrison H, from Rutherford County, killed at Chancellorsville

WEAVER, Berry, from Rutherford County

WEBB, William H, from Rutherford County, died 28 March 1862 at Goldsboro, NC

WELLS, Andrew J, from Rutherford County, died 1 July 1862

WELLS, Woody B, from Rutherford County

WHITE, Alvert Green, from Cleveland County, died 1 June 1862

WHITE, Hiram J, from Cleveland County

WILLIAMS, John, from Rutherford County, died 17 January 1863

WILSON, Greenberry, from Rutherford County

WILSON, James M, from Rutherford County, wounded at Manassas

WILSON, John, from Rutherford County

WILSON, Street, from Rutherford County, wounded at Fraziers Farm, died 
21 February 1863

WITHROW, Adolphus C, from Rutherford County, wounded at Mechanicsville, 
died 17 January 1863

WOMACK, John, from Rutherford County

WRIGHT, Nathan T, from Rutherford County, died 28 August 1863

WRIGHT, William B, from Rutherford County, died of wounds received at Gaines Mill 

WYNN, Willis, from Cleveland County

YELTON, George W, from Rutherford County, died 1 February 1862 at Goldsboro, NC

ZIMMERMAN, David



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