*** 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 18--- so much of his time to the Company. Lieutenant Chipman also announced that the members of the Company would later present Captain Sharpsteen with a token of their regard. The evening concluded with distribution by The Adjutant General of service certificates to all members of the Company who had served three consecutive months, and to those members who had served a less period but who had entered service. The certificates bore the signatures of the Governor, The Adjutant General and the Captain. The Star Spangled Banner was then sung and the assemblage dispersed looking forward to the next annual reunion. A few days later a Committee, consisting of Lieutenants Chipman and Taylor, First Sergeant Masten and former First Sergeant Walberg, called on Captain Sharpsteen and presented him with a gold pencil inscribed: “From men of 86th Co. C.M.R. to Capt. W. C. Sharpsteen, 3-13-20”. Captain Sharpsteen thanked the Committee and through them the men, and assured them that while he needed nothing to remind him of his associates, the pencil would always bring to mind the days when the Eighty-sixth Company was doing its part to help win the war. *** end ***