Betty,

Here is a little info. on your soldiers.

MUSTER ROLL OF *COMPANY A, 34th REGIMENT
GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
ARMY OF TENNESSEE
C. S. A.
WHITFIELD COUNTY, GEORGIA
FITZGERALD RIFLES

Suggs, John C. (or John A )- private May 15,1862 Captured at Atlanta, Ga. September 4, 1864. Sent to Louisville, Ky.; thence to Camp Douglas, Ill. October 29, 1864, and died there from debility from small-pox, December 8,1864. Buried there.

Suggs, Loring- private May 15,1862. Died at Vicksburg, Miss.

CONFEDERATE GEORGIA TROOPS

34th Regiment, Georgia Infantry

34th Infantry Regiment, organized in May, 1862, at Camp McDonald, near Marietta, Georgia, recruited its members in the counties of Bartow, Cherokee, Floyd, Polk, Cobb, Paulding, Carroll, Haralson, and Jackson. The unit was sent to Tennessee, then Mississippi where it was assigned to T.H. Taylor's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It participated in the battle at Champion's Hill and was captured at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. Exchanged and reorganized it was placed in General Cummings' Brigade, Army of Tennessee. The 34th was active in many engagements from Chattanooga to Nashville, and ended the war in North Carolina. It reported 34 casualties at Chattanooga, contained 369 men and 266 arms in December, 1863, and had 219 fit for duty in Janaury, 1865. Very few surrendered in April. The field commanders were Colonel J.A.W. Johnson, Lieutenant Colonel J.W. Bradley, and Majors Thomas T. Dorough and John M. Jackson.

I hope this is of some help,
Gary D. Bray