80 NortH Carotina Troops, 1861-65.

bor, White Oak Swamp, Petersburg, Reams Station, Davis’
Farm and Hatcher’s Run.

Not many remain to tell the story of its bivouaes, marches
and battles, its patience and endurance, its hardships and
sufferings for three years of hard service Soon none will
remain, but its glory is as fadeless as is that of ‘““Lee’s Army,”
whose fortunes and misfortunes it shared to the end.

OFFICERS OF THE FORTY-SIXTH.
(Compiled mainly from memory,)

Company A—R. M. Norment, Captain, promoted, succeed-
ed by Lieutenant H. R. McKinney, a New Yorker by birth,
but a staunch believer in States Rights, who served faithfully
to the end, wounded several times. The regiment had no more
capable or efficient officer. First Lieutenant Frank M. Wish-
art, for many months, was commander of the regimental skir-
mish line. (The writer, during the latter months of the war,
was intimately associated with Lieutenant Wishart, then
Captain of Company B, and testifies to his absolute indiffer-
ence to danger and his total ignorance of fear, laughing and
joking under fire as in camp, always wanting to “get at ’em.”)
He survived the war only to be treacherously murdered by
Henry Berry Lowry. Upon the promotion of Lieut. Wishart
to Captainey of Company B, his brother, Wellington Wish-
art, became First Lieutenant. He is remembered as the
most silent man in the regiment, and as brave as he was silent.
Sergeant J. H. Freeman was promoted to be Second Lieuten-
ant and John Hammond from Ensign.

Company B—Captain W. L. Saunders having been ad-
vanced to a Majority, Lieutenant N. N. Fleming became
Captain and served as such until his death on the field at the
Wilderness, when Lieutenant Frank M. Wishart, of Com-
pany A, was elected Captain, serving in that capacity until
the close. Second Lieutenant George Horah, having been
advanced to First Lieutenancy, was instantly killed at the
Wilderness. Sergeant W. B. Lowrance was promoted to
Second Lieutenant and was transferred to another regiment.

James T. Pearson and John J. Stewart were also promoted :

to Lieutenant. Quartermaster-Sergeant J. M. Waddill was

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promoted to be Second Lieutenant, serving as such until sent
on detached service under Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. McAlis-
ter.

Company C—Upon the promotion of Captain W. A. Jen-
kins, Lieutenant Stephen W. Jones became Captain, serving
gallantly in that capacity until the close. Lieutenants, W.
A. J. Nicholson, Samuel M. Southerland, Leon S. Mabry,
Thomas R. Price and Thomas G. Jenkins. The latter two
were several times wounded in discharge of duty.

Company D—Captain Colin Stewart was with his com-
pany in the one capacity from the organization to the final
ending, and (I think) never received a wound. Daniel Stew-
art and S. M. Thomas were successively First Lieutenant,
and Hugh Middleton, Malloy Patterson, John A. McPhail
and John W. Roper were Second Lieutenants.

Company E—Captain R. J. Mitchell having been pro-
moted to Major, Lieutenant R. L. Heflin became Captain,
and later resigned, being succeeded by Lieutenant Jesse F.
Heflin, who served as Captain until the close—a steady,
brave, capable officer, ever at his post, in camp or field. James
Meadows, First Lieutenant, resigned and was succeeded by
Second Lieutenant J. J. Walker. James Wheeler, John C.
Russell and Henry C. Latta became Second Lieutenants.

Company F—Captain A. C. McAlister, promoted to Ma-
jor, Lieutenant Thomas A. Branson was advanced to Cap-
taincy, losing his life on the field at Davis’ Farm, near Peters-
burg, 1864, when Sergeant M. M. Teague, a gallant young
fellow, was promoted Captain. His Lieutenants were J. A.
Spencer and R. D. McCotter. James A. Marsh, originally
First Lieutenant, was made A. Q. M. 17 April, 1862. Sam-
uel P. Weir, killed at Fredericksburg, was Second Lieutenant
in this company. :

Company G—Upon the resignation of Captain R. P. Troy,
Lieutenant O. W. Carr was advanced to Captain, and re-
mained in command until the close—always at the post of
duty, alike in the service of his country or his God. Ransom
H. Steen, First Lieutenant, was succeeded by R. S. Small,
and T. S. Troy, who fell at the Wilderness and was suc-
ceeded as Second Lieutenant by J. W. Brock, killed at Hatch-

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