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Source:
HISTORY of JEROME TOWNSHIP, UNION COUNTY, OHIO
Curry, W. L. : Columbus, Ohio: Press of the E. T. Miller Co.
1913

46TH REGIMENT,
OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
- THREE YEARS
pg. 106

     This regiment was organized at Worthington, Ohio, in the fall of 1861 and was mustered into the United States service October 16th, 1861, under Colonel Thomas Worthington and Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Walcutt.  Colonel Worthington resigned November 21st, 1862, and Lieutenant Colonel Walcutt was promoted to Colonel and commanded the regiment with marked ability through many of the hard and decisive battles in which it participated.
     Colonel Walcutt was promoted to Brigadier General for distinguished service on the field.  He was severely wounded twice, and was one of the General Grant's most trusted young officers in the Army of the Tennessee.
     Nine soldiers of this regiment, of whom Sergeant James Gowan was killed at the battle of Mission Ridge, Tenn., November 25th, 1863, and William Hudson and Thomas Wray died in the service.  To have served in this regiment through its many campaigns and battles was a distinguished honor.  The other six names are:  William B. Herriott, David M. Pence, John P. Williams,Charles C. Comstock, Ammon P. Converse and Edward R. Buckey.
     The regiment joined General Sherman's army at Paducah, Kentucky, in February, 1862, and participated in the bloody battle of Shiloh, Tenn., Apr. 6th and 7th, 1862.  The loss was 295 killed, wounded and captured.
     In April the regiment moved with the army upon Corinth.  The summer of 1862 was spent at Memphis, and in November the Forty-sixth started on a campaign through Mississippi under General Grant.  In June, 1863, it participated in the siege of Vicksburg, and after the surrender moved upon Jackson.  In October the regiment, under Sherman, embarked for Memphis and Chattanooga.  It took part in the assault on Mission Ridge, sustaining a heavy loss; then marched to the relief of Knoxville.
     At Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw, and the various battles and skirmishes of the Atlanta campaign, the Forty-sixth was ever at the front.  At Ezra Church the regiment especially distinguished itself in repelling the attacking rebels and capturing the colors of the Thirtieth Louisiana.  After the fall of Atlanta, the regiment pursued Hood into northern Alabama and Tennessee.  In November it marched with Sherman to the sea, participating in a sharp encounter at Griswoldsville and in the skirmishing around Savannah.  From Savannah it moved to Bentonville, where it was complimented for gallant conduct in the battle at that place.
     The Forty-sixth moved through the Carolinas, on to Washington, and after the grand review proceeded to Louisville, Ky., where it was mustered out on the 22nd of July, 1865.
     The regiment has to its record eighteen battles, as shown by the official records, with many skirmishes; marched many hundreds of miles, was on the firing line when the war closed, and fought in the last battle of General Sherman's at Bentonville, N. C., Mar. 19th 1865.  The losses, killed, died at wounds and disease, were 290, and the total casualties as shown by the official record were seven hundred and twenty-five.

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