Hello,
My gr gr grandfather was in Co. "K", Col. Micah Jenkins' "Palmetto SharpShooters", Longstreet's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. It was originally intended to be a crack unit of Sharpshooters the equivilent of Berdan's SharpShooters (Union).  People usually say that due to lack of lagistics and material, equipment and arms it wound up being just another infantry unit. 

But I do know that at least in 1862 during the Battle of Seven Pines or the Seven Days battles that they had at least some long range rifles.  General Longstreet wrote that while he and other officers met to reconnoiter that they were under Union artillery fire.  He said that he sent a note to Col Jenkins, who was in that vicinity, to silence the union battery, "Supposing that he could do so with his longrange rifles." 

Also, years ago Civil War Times Illustrated had an article entitled "The Guns of the Palmetto SharpShooters".  In it, it had some pics of some guns, I think around 7 or 8 guns.  Mostly it was a motley collection of various intantry weapons, but I do remember there was at least one Kerr rifle.  Perhaps that is what Longstreet meant when he said long range rifles.  Remember in 1862 they were still well uniformed and armed. In 1865 there were few left of the once magnificant unit, and they had picked up what they could as their original issue was either lost or destroyed.

Just thought someone might find that interesting.
Take care,
Pistolero
Alabama

That is interesting Dave.  If only so much of the Confederate records and such were not destroyed during and after the war.  The untold amounts of historical info that was lost could help out historians, researchers, etc, so much.
Take care,
Dave E.
Alabama

Hello again all,
It was my great great grandfather John Warren White, from Glenn Springs, S.C., who served in the PSS. But I wonder if the 20 small bore enfields mentioned in the list was referring to Whitworths? Unfortunately my gr gr grandfather and two of his brothers who served in Co. "K" of the PSS all died in the war. Another brother with the 5th S.C. died in or on the way to the Battle of Sharpsburg, Md.. So three White brothers died in 1862 and my gr gr grandfather in 1864. No telling what weapons, unidorms, etc, and info and/or stories might have been handed down had he survived the war.

The only one of the five White brothers from Spartanburg or Glenn Springs, S.C. to survived migrated to Texas after the war and wound up in the Texas State Mental Institution. Sad aint it. He helped bury his last two brothers. Losing all four of his brothers must have been hard on him!
Pistolero