46th Virginia Infantry Regiment

46th Virginia Infantry Regiment
46th Virginia Infantry Regiment
	Flag of Virginia, 1861
Active	August 1861 – April 1865
Disbanded	April 1865
Country	Confederacy
Allegiance	Confederate States of America
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Infantry
Engagements	American Civil War Battle of Roanoke Island; Seven Days' Battles; Siege of Charleston Harbor; Battle of Cold Harbor; Siege of Petersburg; Appomattox Campaign;

The 46th Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly in Virginia and the Carolinas.^[1]

46th Infantry Regiment (also called 1st or 2nd Regiment, Wise Legion) was organized in August, 1861.

It was soon ordered to North Carolina and placed in a brigade commanded by former governor

St. James Church in Richmond would be the capitol's most elaborate before that of Stonewall Jackson the following year)^[2] and Roberts Coles (son of former Illinois Territorial Governor and abolitionist Edward Coles).^[3]

Following a prisoner exchange, as well as additional soldiers being added to replace those who failed to re-enlist and those lost through disease and to a lesser extent, battle casualties, the unit reassembled in Virginia, saw some action in the

Appomattox Campaign, many officers and men were captured during the Battle at Sailor's Creek. Fifteen officers and 116 men surrendered on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox

.

The field officers were Colonels J. Lucius Davis, Richard T. W. Duke, Randolph Harrison, and John H. Richardson; Lieutenant Colonel Peyton Wise; and Majors Hugh W. Fry, Jr. and James C. Hill.

References

^ Darrell L. Collins, 46th Virginia (Lynchburg, H.E. Howard Inc. Regimental History Series 1992)
^ Collins pp. 13-14
^ "Scottsville Museum: Our History".
^ Collins, pp. 36-41