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THIRTY-FOURTH INFANTRY.

. . . . September 29, left Atlanta with Second Division, Fourteenth Army Corps for the purpose of driving Forrest from Tennessee;
pursued him to Florence, Alabama, driving him across the Tennessee River, after which the Regiment rejoined Sherman's Army south of Chattanooga in Northern Alabama. Returned with army to Atlanta and went with Sherman to the Sea, and on the Campaign through the Carolinas. In a light engagement at Averysboro, N. C., on March 16,1865, had three men killed and five wounded. . .
Source: Illinois Adjutant-General's Report, vol. 2, p. 688

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