Few good links:
http://www.researchonline.net/sccw/unit170.htm
http://home.freeuk.net/gazkhan/palmettos.htm
I found this person. It appears that whoever requested this marker and assuming it is a VA type marker simply did not provide the correct info? Note this indicates Company I not Company H but it appears he was a Doctor hence the initials DJV
Doctor J. V. Martin (First_Last) DJV
Regiment Name 9 South Carolina Infantry
Side Confederate
Company I
Soldier's Rank_In Sergeant
Soldier's Rank_Out Sergeant
Alternate Name
Notes
Film Number M381 roll 20
Did not come up with anything on EBENEZER BETTERWORTH still looking.
As for folks collecting these I could not tell you. Just hope they were no actually removed from the orginal gravesites that would be tragic.
Palmetto Sharpshooters
When the spring of 1862 came around so did the end of the enlistments of many of the army. With this many went home to their families, although the majority did re-enlist. Quite a few of those who re-enlist joined different regiments. On 16 April Congress extends their original service by another three years, or to the end of the war.
On 21 April Congress now authorizes the raising of sharpshooter regiments, to be attached to each infantry brigade. Further on the 22 May it is ordered that those within these units should be from the same state.
In reality only a few sharpshooter units are raised. And these due to the permanent shortage of troops within the armies would, in the main, not be doing the tasks for which they were to have been employed but would be line infantry. One of these newly raised units would be the Palmetto's.
At Camp Taylor, near Orange Court House, Virginia the companies that are to comprise the Palmetto's are mustering into the unit, which was being organized by Colonel Micah Jenkins. In the main these are raised from the 4th, 5th and 9th South Carolina Infantry Regiments (William J. Rivers, 'Account of the Raising of the Troops in South Carolina for State and Confederate Service') (Joseph H. Crute Jnr in his 'Units of the Confederate Army' states it was the 2nd, 5th, and 9th Infantry Regiments).
Company A, Captain J.W. Goss 5th S.C. Johnson Rifles
Company B, Captain F.W. Kilpatrick 4th S.C. Calhoun Mountaineers
Company C, Captain W.W. Humphreys 4th S.C. Palmetto Riflemen
Company D, Captain A.F. Foster 5th S.C. Morgan Light Infantry
Company E, Captain A. Colclough 9th S.C. Darlington Sentinels
Company F, Captain J.E. Lee 9th S.C. Pickens Sentinels
Company G, Captain J.N. Withers 5th S.C. Jasper Light Infantry
Company H, Captain J. W. Martin 9th S.C. Cowpens Guards
Captain J.J. Brown (Crute)
Company I, Captain F.L. Garvin 4th S.C. Pickens Guards
Company K, Captain J.H. Evans 5th S.C. Spartan Rifles
Company L, Captain J.W. Daniels 4th S.C. Confederate Guards
Company M, Captain F. G. Latham 5th S.C. Pacolet Guards
Captain J.Q. Carpenter (Crute)
The unit is formed with approximately 1,100 men. Drafts during their period of service numbered approximately 550 men. At their surrender at Appomattox there are still 385 men under arms, of which 29 were officers. The largest of any surrendering regiment.
The known encampments, skirmishes, and battles follow: