Forty-StxtH REGIMENT. gGs

affidavit before Sergeant-Major Troy that “thirteen typical
South Carolina cattle yielded only eleven hundred pounds of
blue beef.”

With shouts of joy, the regiment bade adieu to Pocataligo
about 20 April, proceeding to Topsail Sound, near Wilming-
ton, where the usual army ration was totally disregarded for
the luscious oyster, to be had in the sound for the getting.

8 May camp was broken and the regiment moved to
Goldsboro, from whence it took a bloodless part in the Kin-
ston campaign.

6 June the command left North Carolina for Virginia,
where it was stationed near Hanover Junction.

Various camps were occupied near Richmond, the brigade
being stationed here for the protection of the city, while the
main army marched to Gettysburg.

Nothing of interest occurred here except a most brilliant
engagement at South Anna bridge, between Company B,
of the Forty-sixth, supporting a battery, and a force of
Union cavalry, about 6 July, in which that company covered
itself with glory. Thirty-three fresh graves were counted
on the Federal position of the engagement. Loss in Com-
pany B, four killed and ten wounded.

Late in July, 1863, found the regiment near Fredericks-
burg, where it remained until 30 August. During this time
the death of Adjutant Mallett, at the hands of deserters from
another regiment, whom he was endeavoring to arrest, cast a
gloom over the entire regiment.

This gallant young officer had endeared himself to every
member of the regiment by his excellent bearing in the field,
as well as the genial -good nature manifested in his daily
duties in camp. A detail under Lieutenant Mallett had been
sent in pursuit of the party of deserters. By some means he
became separated from most of his small force and coming
up with the refugees he, with his usual fearlessness, rode up
to them, demanding their surrender, when one of the party
shot the noble fellow dead.

1 September, 1863, the regiment bade a final adieu to
Fredericksburg, proceeding by the way of Guinea’s Station to
Taylorsville, where it remained some days, when on 25 Sep-

 

 

FORTY-SIXTH REGIMENT.

1. Thomas Troy, Lieutenant, Co. G. 3. W.C. Bain, Sergeant, Co. G

2. Henry C. Latta, 2d Lieut., Co. E.
(Killed at Petersburg, Nov. 12, 1864.) 5 Fda Sky ooke Siete