Hi Ian
The following on arms is taken from my 16th web-page. AS you will see even by the 13 June 1861 they had no weapons. Sometime after that they were issued with flintlock, needless to say I have lost the quotation. On the rocks on the 9 May 1864 this just could be troops who had run out of ammunition.
On the evening of the 13 June at 2300 the Regiment were awoken, with a deliberate fake alarm. They were thrown into line 'notwithstanding we were entirely unarmed had the enemy charged our camp he would not have escaped without having been severely flogged - for poles, clubs, rocks, shovels, spades, tongs and various other implements of war filled the brawny hands of the dauntless boys.'
On 29 May 1862 they started to be issued with better weapons as 'several of our Regiment drew Enfield rifled muskets today.' Again Again on 14 August 1862 we were 'today furnished with new Enfield rifles' this obviously was to more than one company as in another diary 'we drew new Enfield rifles today. We are well pleased with our guns' and 'we turn in our old gunes that we have had ever sence we have been in the servis. We get in place of them Endfield Rifels that had never been used any.'
How short the Regiment were at times of arms cannot be known but on the 9th May 1864 this was written 'In places the cliffs were perpendicular. When the enemy pressed in the timber to near the cliffs, Colonel Donelson ordered every man who had no gun to throw and roll rocks over the cliffs.'
I have found no info that all the Regiment had new clothing on the 27 Oct, they were even sending home for clothing late 1861, these arrived on the 20 Nov. 'Captains of individual companies were ordered to ascertain their wants of their respective commands, and report a list of same, to be sent by a detailed officer to our homes in Tennessee to solicit supplies'.
You say 'AM Mason of Co E had this ‘degerotype taken’ at Camp Trousdale Tn 19th July 1861 and Capt Womack of Co E had a daguereotype taken in Lynchburg Va in December 1861.' Do you have a copy, or know where, these photos are.
Thanks for the imput web-page is
http://home.freeuk.net/gazkhan/
Jim