William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington

Forty-Sixth Pennsylvania Infantry.

179 killed == 10 per cent.

Total of killed and wounded, 622.

Present, also, at Kernstown, Va.; Manassas, Va.; Cassville, Ga.; Savannah, Ga.

notes.--Organized in September, 1861, at Harrisburg, Pa., the regiment was ordered, soon after, to Harper's Ferry, where it was assigned to Crawford's Brigade, Williams's Division, Banks's Corps, subsequently the Twelfth Corps. It remained in the vicinity of the Upper Potomac until the early part of 1862, when it moved with Banks up the Shenandoah Valley. Stonewall Jackson's presence there made an active campaign in which the Forty-sixth took a prominent part. At Cedar Mountain, Banks gave battle with his little army, and a bloody contest ensued. The Forty-sixth entered that engagement with 23 officers and 481 men; it lost there 31 killed, 102 wounded, and 111 missing or captured; eleven officers were killed or wounded. The regiment was in line with the Twelfth Corps at Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, after which the Corps was ordered to Tennessee. Having reenlisted for the war it was granted a thirty days furlough in January, 1864, after which it returned with its ranks well recruited. The Corps number was changed to the Twentieth and the command given to General Hooker. The regiment shared in all of Sherman's hard fighting in his advance on Atlanta, during which occurred the battle of Peach Tree Creek, Ga., in which it withstood a desperate attack; five of the officers lost their lives in this affair. The Forty-sixth marched through Georgia and the Carolinas with Sherman; thence through Virginia, over its old battle grounds, to Washington where it took part in the Grand Review at the close of the war.