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Thirty-Fourth Illinois Infantry.
Mitchell's Brigade —
Davis's Division--Fourteenth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 17 |
| Company | A | | 12 | 12 | | 13 | 13 | 182 |
| | B | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 13 | 13 | 168 |
| | C | 2 | 11 | 13 | | 11 | 11 | 156 |
| | D | | 20 | 20 | | 12 | 12 | 168 |
| | E | | 9 | 9 | | 14 | 14 | 153 |
| | F | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 11 | 11 | 148 |
| | G | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 14 | 14 | 132 |
| | H | 3 | 21 | 24 | | 10 | 10 | 160 |
| | I | 2 | 11 | 13 | | 10 | 10 | 133 |
| | K | | 11 | 11 | | 10 | 10 | 137 |
| Totals | 11 | 129 | 140 | 2 | 119 | 121 | 1,554 |
Total of killed and wounded, 508.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 35 | Lost Mountain, Ga. | 2 |
| Siege of Corinth, Miss. | 2 | Assault on Kenesaw, Ga. | 12 |
| Stone's River, Tenn. | 36 | Atlanta, Ga. | 5 |
| Liberty Gap, Tenn. | 6 | Jonesboro, Ga. | 7 |
| Rocky Face Ridge, Ga. | 1 | Averasboro, N. C. | 6 |
| Resaca, Ga. | 10 | Bentonville, N. C. | 14 |
| Rome, Ga. | 1 | Haywood, N. C. | 1 |
| Dallas, Ga. | 2 | | |
Present, also, at
Triune, Tenn.;
Graysville, Ga.;
Sherman's March to the
Sea.
notes.--Organized at
Springfield September 7, 1861, and ordered to
Kentucky in October, where it remained until February 14, 1862.
It was then in
Kirk's Brigade of
Rousseau's Division.
It fought at
Shiloh — then in
McCook's Division of
Buell's Army — losing 15 killed and 112 wounded;
Major Charles H. Levanway was killed in this action.
The Thirty-fourth was present at the Siege of
Corinth, after which it marched with the army through
Northern Alabama,
Tennessee and
Kentucky to
Louisville, arriving there September 27, 1862.
It then moved on the Perryville campaign, after which it encamped at
Nashville.
At the
battle of Stone's River it was in
Kirk's (2d) Brigade,
Johnson's (2d) Division,
McCook's Corps, its casualties amounting to 21 killed, 100 wounded, and 74 missing, out of 354 engaged;
General Kirk, formerly
Colonel of the Thirty-fourth, was killed there.
At Liberty Gap, Tenn., the regiment lost 3 killed and 24 wounded. In September, 1863, it was ordered to Carpenter's Ferry, on the
Tennessee River, to guard a pontoon bridge, upon which duty it was engaged at the time of the
battle of Chickamauga.
In November, 1863, it was assigned to
Davis's (2d) Division, Fourteenth Corps, in which it served on the
Atlanta campaign, and it was hotly engaged at
Resaca; also in the assault on
Kenesaw, losing in that affair 5 killed and 40 wounded. Having reenlisted for the war it was present on the march through
Georgia, and at the fighting in the Carolinas; it lost at
Averasboro, 3 killed and 5 wounded; and at
Bentonville — then in
Morgan's Division--8 killed and 22 wounded. After marching in the
Grand Review at
Washington, May 24, 1865, the regiment moved to
Louisville where it was mustered out, July 12, 1865.
