*** 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 2--- Others who will be mentioned in this record, who took part in The Old Guard are: Hugh T. Sime, formerly a Major in the National Guard of California and subsequently a Major in the United States Army during the Spanish War and W. C. Sharpsteen and W. F. Chipman, formerly Captains in the National Guard of California. The five officers mentioned were among those elected to the Board of Directors of The Old Guard. After a number of meetings had been held and the roll had increased to about three hundred members, it was decided that until some service was found for the organization, the members should be given instruction in the Infantry Drill Regulations of the United States Army insamuch as these regulations had been adopted subsequent to the tactics under which most of the members had been instructed. Accordingly, one of the halls in the Civic Auditorium having been procured for the purpose, Major Sime was appointed to take charge of the instruction, and he selected four former Captains as his assistants. One of these was Captain Sharpsteen, who by reason of the withdrawal of the other Captains ultimately became sole drill master. Weekly drills were held until the Fall of 1917. HOME GUARD. On May 10, 1917, The Adjutant General of the State of California issued regulations for the organization and government of the Home Guard. Briefly, it authorized citizens of the United States, or those who had declared their intention to become citizens, between the ages of eighteen and sixty years, to the number of not less than forty nor more than seventy-five, to form a company and upon signing muster rolls approved, first, by the County Council of Defense and then by the Adjutant General, a license *** end ***