CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
34th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
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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.
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