* This company was successively designated as Captain Taylor's Company, Mississippi Volunteers; Company A, 6th Battalion Mississippi Volunteers; and Company A, 46th Regiment Mississippi Infantry.
The 6th (Balfour's) Battalion Mississippi Infantry was organized about April, 1862. It was afterward increased to a regiment and its designation changed to the 46th Regiment Mississippi Infantry December 2, 1862.
** The next surviving bi-monthly report for Company A was for the period Man & June, 1862 where they were stationed at Vicksburg. He must have been dropped from the rolls for some indeterminate reason on the March & April, 1862 muster which is missing from the records. ld
Reading the Record of Events below, it would appear he was taken ill, and either died, or was discharged for disability.
M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi
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46th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
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.
http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm
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The following was taken from the Supplement of the Offical Records:
Record of Events for Forty-sixth Mississippi Infantry
(formerly Balfour's Sixth Battalion),
November 1861-June 1865.
Company A (formerly Gaines' Invincibles)
Stationed at Vicksburg, Mississippi, November 21, 1861.
November 21.— Muster-in roll of Captain Angus Taylor's Com-
pany (Gaines' Invincibles), in the — Regiment (— Brigade) of
Mississippi Volunteers, commanded by Colonel —, called into
the service of the Confederate States in the Provisional Army,
under the provisions of the Act of Congress passed February —,
1861 by —, from November 21, 1861 (date of this muster) for
the term of twelve months, unless sooner discharged. . . .
H. B. HARDCASTLE,
First Lieutenant,
Confederate States Infantry, Mustering Officer.
Stationed at Vicksburg, Mississippi, November 21-December 31,
1861.
October 26.— The company received marching orders to report
at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
October 31.— Reached Vicksburg.
November 2.— Were mustered into the service of the Confederate
States.
Were ordered to Jackson, Mississippi to join the [Johnson
Kelly] Duncan Battalion under command of Major Hardcastle.
Being informed by the Secretary of War that we were not com-
pelled to join said battalion, we returned to Vicksburg. Were
ordered to remain there to man the fortifications at that place, the
battery there being removed to Columbus, Kentucky. We were
left there as an infantry company.
Stationed at Camp Benjamin, New Orleans, Louisiana, January-
February 1862.
January 7.— This company was ordered by Governor (John
[Jones]) Pettus of Mississippi to repair to New Orleans and report
to General [Mansfield] Lovell for duty, being at that time sta-
tioned at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
January 8.— Left Vicksburg.
January 9.— Arrived at New Orleans and reported to General
Lovell that day.
January 16.— He ordered them to Camp Benjamin, to which
place they removed. There they have since remained.
February 24.— They were ordered to prepare to move to the Bay
of Saint Louis.
February 25.— They reported themselves ready to march, but
have not yet been ordered off. The health of the company is at
this time very much impaired, about half of the men being sick
with the measles.
Stationed at Vicksburg, May-December 1862.
Stationed at Vicksburg, January-February 1863.
The company has been doing fatigue duty with the balance of
the regiment in [Stephen Dill] Lee's Brigade.
Stationed at Enterprise, [March]-October 1863.
March 25.— At 3 p.m. the company left the camp at Vicksburg
en route for Deer Creek. Marched twelve miles before halting.
March 26.— Reached Haynes' Bluff early the next morning.
Embarked on board steam boat and about night[fall] reached the
position via Deer Creek occupied by Brigadier-General Lee.
Accomplished nearly half the journey in a crowded flat boat pro-
pelled by cars. Remained here a few days and returned to
Haynes' Bluff.
April 22.— We remained at this place doing picket duty until
April 22, when we returned to our camps at Vicksburg.
April 30.— We left Vicksburg about 4 p.m. for Port Gibson.
May 1.— Arrived at Port Gibson (distance, fifty miles) by 8
[a.m.] We were in the engagement there from the time of our
arrival until night, when we commenced our retreat. Marched all
that night.
May 2.— Arrived at Grand Gulf by 10 o'clock the next morning.
May 3.— Continued the retreat.
May 4.— Arrived at Vicksburg in the evening
May 5.— Left camp for Big Black River in the evening.
May 17.— Covered the retreat of the enemy from Big Black
River. Participated in the defense of Vicksburg.
July 4.— Was surrendered.