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 P etersburg 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 en gaged at Gettysburg , twenty-one percent were disabled. It surrendered 21 officers and 145 men.

On line site dedicated to this regiment.

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. Mill er, William A. Owens, Martin Shoffner, and Francis L. Twitty.

J. R. Anderson's Brigade, Department of North Carolina (April-May 1862)
J. R. Anderson's Brigade, Department of Northern Virginia (May 1862)
J. R. Anderson's Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division, Army of Northern Virginia (May-June l862)
J. R. Anderson's-Pender’s and Scale’s Brigade, A. P. Hill's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia (June-July 1862)

Seven Days Battles (June 25-July 1, 1862)
Gaines' Mill (June 27, 1862)
Savages's Station (June 29, 1862)
Fraser's Farm (June 30, 1862)
Malvern Hill (July l, 1862)
Cedar Mountain (August 9, 1862)
2nd Bull Run or Second Manassas (August 28-30, 1862)
Chantilly (September 1, 1862)
Harpers Ferry (September 12-15, 1862)
Antietam or Sharpsburg (September 17, 1862)
Shepherdstown Ford (September 20, 1862)
Fredericksburg (December 13,1862)
Chancellorsville (May 1-4, 1863)
Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863)
Williamsport (July 6, 1863)
Bristoe Campaign (October 1863)
Mine Run Campaign (November-December 1863)
The Wilderness (May 5-6, 1864)
Spotsylvania Court House (May 8-21, 1864)
North Anna (May 23-26, 1864)
Cold Harbor (June 1-3, 1864)
Piedmont (June 5, 1864)
Petersburg Siege (June 1864-April 1865)
Weldon Railroad (June 22, 1864)
Fort Stedman (March 25, 1865)
Petersburg (April 2, 1865)
Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)

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.

REFERENCES:

REF: Crute - Units of the Confederate States Army
Moore - Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States