*** Source: Record of Eighty-sixth Company California Military Reserve; San Francisco?: unknown, 1920?, 37 pgs. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 12--- OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION. The Home Guard regulation, to which reference has been made, were doubtless dictated by a desire to allay the apprehensions of the people who feared that the withdrawal of so many able-bodied men, including the organized National Guard, into the military service of the United States, would invite riot and insurrection. The fact that neither the United States or the State then had arms or equipment for the Home Guard detracted from the value of these organizations in a military sense. Some of the companies outside of San Francisco undertook to arm themselves with rifles of a non-military character and, therefore, unsuited for the purposes of drill. The four companies in San Francisco at a late day succeeded in getting military rifles of obsolete patterns, which, while suitable for purposes of drill, would not have been of much service as firearms. At the outset The Adjutant General did not require companies to be armed as a condition to being licensed, but before application was made by the Eighty-fifth, Eighty-sixth, Eighty-seventh and Ninety-first Companies, a ruling was made that no further Home Guard organizations would be licensed unless they had arms or had contracted to procure them. This virtually put an end to the organization of Home Guard Companies as it was impossible, except at prohibitive prices, to purchase military rifles. In a number of localities there were several companies which could have been organized into battalions. The Adjutant General, however, declined to issue the necessary order for such organization, except in one instance, Fresno, but *** end ***