*** 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 4--- Battalion. After muster rolls had been signed by the minimum number of men required by the regulations, but before they had been approved the several companies proceeded to the election of officers. M. F. Sylva was elected Captain of the Fifth Company, William Wehser of the Sixth Company, W. C. Sharpsteen of the Seventh Company. W. F. Chipman was elected First Lieutenant, and John W. Davis Second Lieutenant of the Seventh Company. Almost simultaneously the other companies were organized and elected officers. While the companies were in process of formation, and with only one company licensed the officers of that company, together with a number of persons who had been active in promoting the organization of the regiment, met and and appointed regimental field and staff officers. Although this was considered in bad taste by the members of the Second Battalion, as in their judgment no selection of field and staff officers should have been made until all the companies had been formed and elected officers, no protest was made. The muster rolls of the several companies were placed in the hands of the person named as colonel for the purpose of having him file them with The Adjutant General and procure the licenses. Instead of proceeding as the regulations required, the Colonel informed The Adjutant General that a regiment of Home Guards had been formed in San Francisco, and had selected a full complement of field and staff officers and requested The Adjutant General to organize the companies into a regiment and to issue certificates to the persons select as field and staff officers. The Adjutant General very properly insisted on observance of the regulations, pointing out that they required, first, approval *** end ***