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34th Infantry Regiment
United States Colored Troops
Officers of the 34th USCT

Listing, by rank and name, of officers who served with the 34th regiment

NPS - CWSS
NPS - CWSS

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2nd SC Volunteers - AD

The Second South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment - African Descent, later; the 34th USCT

Regimental History

Regimental history of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment-African Descent, predessor to the 3th USCT
Organized February 8, 1864, from the 2nd South Carolina Colored Infantry. Attached to Montgomery's Brigade, District of Florida, Dept. of the South, February, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Vogdes' Division, District of Florida, Dept. of the South, to April 1864. Morris Island, S.C., Northern District, Dept. of the South, to June, 1864. District of Beaufort, S.C., Dept. of the South, to August, 1864. District of Florida, Dept. of the South, to October, 1864. 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of the South, to November, 1864. 1st Brigade, Coast Division, Dept. of the South, to November, 1864. 2nd Brigade, Coast Division, Dept. of the South, to January, 1865. 4th Separate Brigade, District of Florida, Dept. of the South and Dept. of Florida, to February, 1866.

SERVICE. -- Provost duty at Jacksonville, Fla., till March 30, 1864. Moved to Palatka, Fla., March 30-31, and to Picolata, April 12. Ordered to Folly Island, S.C., April 13, thence to Morris Island, S.C. and duty there, operating against Charleston till May 20. Moved to St. Augustine, Fla., May 20, thence to Tyree Island, S.C., May 22. Expedition to Ashepoo River, May 26. Moved to Hilton Head, S.C., Jun 30. Expedition to James Island, S.C., July 1-10.

Near Winter's Point, July 3. King's Creek, July 3. Actions on James Island, July 3 and 9-10. Burden's Causway, July 9. Return to Jacksonville, Fla., July 31. Expedition to Enterprise, August 2-5. Raid on Florida Railroad, August 15-18. Action at Gainsville, August 17. Duty at Jacksonville, Palatka and Magnolia Springs, Fla., till November 25. Expedition to Boyd's Neck, S.C., November 28-30.

Battle at Honey Hill, S.C., November 30. Expedition to Devaux's Neck, December 6. Moved to Hilton Head, S.C., thence to Jacksonville, Fla., January, 1865. Duty at Jacksonville till February, 1866. Mustered out February 28, 1866.

Source: Dyer's Compendium, p. 1729

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