Hi all,
I've read Fred Ray's Shock Troops of the Confederacy, William Dunlop's Lee's Sharpshooters, and Philip Katcher's Sharpshooters of the Civil War (Osprey) and while there's a lot of information and detail on the sharpshooter battalions created in 1864 for the 2nd and 3rd Corps, I don't see much reference to sharpshooter battalions in the 1st Corps. There's a lot of mention of Wilcox's, McGowan's, Scale's, and virtually all the other brigades in the 2nd and 3rd Corps (and obviously Blackford's "Division").
Independently looking, I know of the 3rd SC Bn in Kershaw's (Henagan's) Brigade, 3rd Georgia Bn in Wofford's Brigade, and the Palmetto Regiment under Jenkins. Beyond that, I don't see mention of sharpshooters in Anderson's, Benning's, Humphrey's, Law's, or the Texas Brigades. I saw a brief mention somewhere of sharpshooters in Bryan's brigade but I don't know if this was part of the organized sharpshooter battalion. I even saw a mention that Lamkin's Nelson Artillery Battery who arrived at the Army of Northern Virginia without any guns in 1864 and being used as sharpshooters at the Wilderness. I also saw a mention of "Longstreet's First Corps sharpshooter detachment" taking potshots at Union supply trains during the siege of Chattanooga.
Ray's book mentions Lee's order to create sharpshooter battalions in all brigades of the Army of Northern Virginia and the author implies that each of the brigades did have one formed in Spring 1864.
Does anyone have any insight into the sharpshooter battalion in the 1st Corps?
I've read Fred Ray's Shock Troops of the Confederacy, William Dunlop's Lee's Sharpshooters, and Philip Katcher's Sharpshooters of the Civil War (Osprey) and while there's a lot of information and detail on the sharpshooter battalions created in 1864 for the 2nd and 3rd Corps, I don't see much reference to sharpshooter battalions in the 1st Corps. There's a lot of mention of Wilcox's, McGowan's, Scale's, and virtually all the other brigades in the 2nd and 3rd Corps (and obviously Blackford's "Division").
Independently looking, I know of the 3rd SC Bn in Kershaw's (Henagan's) Brigade, 3rd Georgia Bn in Wofford's Brigade, and the Palmetto Regiment under Jenkins. Beyond that, I don't see mention of sharpshooters in Anderson's, Benning's, Humphrey's, Law's, or the Texas Brigades. I saw a brief mention somewhere of sharpshooters in Bryan's brigade but I don't know if this was part of the organized sharpshooter battalion. I even saw a mention that Lamkin's Nelson Artillery Battery who arrived at the Army of Northern Virginia without any guns in 1864 and being used as sharpshooters at the Wilderness. I also saw a mention of "Longstreet's First Corps sharpshooter detachment" taking potshots at Union supply trains during the siege of Chattanooga.
Ray's book mentions Lee's order to create sharpshooter battalions in all brigades of the Army of Northern Virginia and the author implies that each of the brigades did have one formed in Spring 1864.
Does anyone have any insight into the sharpshooter battalion in the 1st Corps?