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: SIMMONS, James O, Captain MCDOWELL, John L, Captain WOOD, James, Captain, wounded 2 July1863 at Gettysburg MCKINNEY, William A, 2nd Lieutenant SIMMONS, Asbury, 2nd Lieutenant PHILLIPS, Thomas P, 2nd Lieutenant HUNTLEY, George Jobe, 2nd Lieutenant, wounded 27 June 1862 at Gaines Mill, killed 3 July 1863 at Gettysburg NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS: WATKINS, Jonas B, 1st Sergeant, died 7 July 1862 at Richmond SMITH, Joseph C, 2nd Sergeant HINSDALE, Charles C, 3rd Sergeant, wounded at Chancellorsville FOWLER, Leonard, 4th Sergeant, wounded at Manassas and Gettysburg SUTTLE, George M, 1st Corporal FOWLER, Daniel W, 2nd Corporal SIMMONS, Elisha L, 4th Corporal, died 17 August 1862 at Richmond PRIVATES: BAREFIELD, William, wounded at Manassas BLANTON, William BOWERS, William, from South Carolina BRIDGES, Aaron BROOKS, James T BURGESS, William CARGEL, Sansbury, killed 26 June 1862 at Ellysons Mill CHANCY, E A, from Montgomery County CLAYTON, J L, from Granville County, wounded at Chancellorsville COLBERT, Lewis,died 25 January 1862 CRAWFORD, John H, wounded at Shepherdstown DECK, Joseph L DYER, John W, died 10 December 1861 FISHER, William, from Lincoln County FLINN, M W, wounded at the 2nd Battle of Manassas GOODE, George, died 30 March 1862 GOODE, John W GOODE, William R, died 30 march 1862 GRIFFIN, James T, wounded at Gettysburg HANSELL, John P, from Gaston County HARRIS, Burell B, joined 1 April 1864, surrendered at Appomatox. HARRIS, Nimrod HARRIS, William C HAWKINS, G M, from Cleveland County HAWKINS, J B, from Cleveland County HAYES, Thomas HENDERSON, James HENSON, J P HENSON, P J, wounded at Gettysburg HESTER, Jamaes M HESTER, Jason, died 20 March 1863 HESTER, John HONEYCUTT, Dillard HONEYCUTT, Marion, killed 3 May 1863 at Chancellorsville HOPPER, John A M HUGHES, Talliferro, died 1 April 1862 HUNTLEY, G J, wounded near Richmond, VA, killed at Gettysburg JENKINS, Eli JENKINS, Henry, wounded at Gettysburg JENKINS, John JOLLY, James, from Cabarrus County JONES, William L, wounded 30 June 1862 KENNEDY, J C, killed 26 June 1862 at Mechanicsville KENNEDY, John KENNEDY, Joseph, wounded at Gettysburg KENNEDY, Thomas KIMBRELL, James N F, died 15 February 1862 at Goldsboro KIMBRELL, Michael A, wounded 30 June 1862 KIMBRELL, Thomas KING, Wilkie J, died 27 March 1862 LANCASTER, D D LINEBERGER, John F, from Gaston County,wounded at Chancellorsville MARTIN, James MARTIN, William MAYES, Orson MCDOWELL, J L, from Rutherford County MCFALLS, T C MINTZ, John C, wounded at Chancellorsville MINTZ, Thomas J, wounded at Chancellorsville and near Richmond MOISEN, J R MORROW, E G MORROW, George W MORROW, James R, wounded at Ox Hill, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg MURDE, Martin NEAL, John B, died 25 February 1862 PADGETT, Marcus PHILLIPS, Hilman PHILLIPS, Lawson RAINES, Stephen ROBBINS, Elisha, wounded at Chancellorsville ROBBINS, Jackson, killed at Gettysburg RUPPE, Samuel, from Cleveland County, wounded at Chancellorsville SHEHAN, James F, wounded at Ox Hill SIMMONS, M W SMITH, Dillard, died 30 June 1863 SMITH, John C, died 25 November 1862 SMITH, William R SPLAWN, James T STEADMAN, James, wounded at Richmond and Gettysburg STEADMAN, Perry STRICKLAND, Marion, wounded at Sharpsburg SUTTLE, Phillip, died 5 June 1863 SUTTON, William, wounded at the 2nd Battle of Manassas TATE, Gamewell TATE, H J TOLER, James, killed at Gettysburg UPCHURCH, Daniel WALKER, Thomas, died 5 October 1862 WATKINS, T E C WEBB, Daniel WHITT, William WILSON, Joseph WOOD, Marcus WOOD, Thompson J, wounded at Chancellorsville and Getysburg WYATT, James
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