CONFEDERATE MISSISSIPPI TROOPS
46th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
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46th Infantry Regiment was organized during the fall of 1862 by adding four companies to
the six-company 6th (Balfour's) Mississippi Infantry Battalion. In February, 1863, it totalled 407
effectives and served in S.D. Lee's and Baldwin's Brigade in the Department of Mississippi and
East Louisiana. The unit participated in the long Vicksburg siege and was captured on July
4, 1863. After the exchange it was assigned to General Baldwin's, Tucker's, and Sears' Brigade.
It fought in the Atlanta
Campaign, endured Hood's winter operations in Tennessee, and shared in the defense of Mobile.
The regiment had 1 wounded at Chickasaw Bayou and during the Atlanta
operations, May 18 to September 5, reported 23 killed, 68 wounded, and 37 missing. It lost 1
killed, 13 wounded, and 16 missing at Allatoona and had many disabled at Franklin. Only a remnant surrendered in
May, 1865. The field officers were Colonels William H. Clark and Claudius W. Sears, Lieutenant
Colonel William K. Easterling, and Major Constantine Rea.
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