On page 61, he notes "in one important matter the 116th fully measured up to General Meagher’s standards. The regiment was armed with smoothbore muskets, with which the Pennsylvannians engaged in frequent target practice down by the river bank where boys fired away at imaginary Confederates and filled trees full of buck and ball."
On page 163 Bilby provides the fourth quarter returns of 1862, showing Company C of the 116th PA having 24 Enfield rifle muskets, while companies E, G, H, and I were equipped with Model 1842 muskets. There were no returns for the other companies.