Publisher's Synopsis
The North Carolina 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. Company A--Ashe County--Captain, S. N. Wilson.Company B--Rutherford and Cleveland Counties--Captain, John Edwards.Company C--Rutherford County--Captain M. O. Dickerson.Company D--Rowan County--Captain, William A. Houk.Company E--Lincoln County--Captain, John F. Hill.Company F--Cleveland County--Captain Abram G. Walters.Company G--Mecklenburg County--Captain, William R. Myers.Company H--Cleveland County--Captain, Samuel A. Hoey.Company I--Rutherford County--Captain, James O. Simmons.Company K--Montgomery County--Captain, David R. Cochran.
