*** 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 5--- of the muster rolls; second, issuance of the license; third, selection of company officers; and fourth, confirmation of the officers elected. After these preliminaries had been observed and not before it would be in order for The Adjutant General in his "discretion" to organize the companies into a regiment and to recommend to the Governor the field and staff officers. The colonel insisting upon recognition of the regiment and the appointment of the field and staff officers at the same time as approval of the muster rolls and of the officers selected by the several companies, a deadlock ensued. A most unedifying controversy followed in which it was sought to force The Adjutant General into a recognition of the regiment and of its field and staff officers. Much of the controversy found its way into the newspapers and produced a very demoralizing effect on the companies of the regiment, the members of which were doing their best to qualify themselves for the emergency for which they had enlisted. The Adjutant General having allowed the companies to use the State Armory for their meetings and drills, each battalion was assigned one drill night each week on which the companies were first drilled by their commanding officers and later as a battalion by their respective majors. Major Sime was elected Major of the Second Battalion. Besides the drills at the Armory, the regiment on two occasions held drills at Golden Gate Park and took part in a number of parades, one of which was on Memorial Day when it marched to the Presidio. The other occasions were in aid of the several Liberty Loans. The White House presented the regiment with the national colors and O'Connor, Moffatt and *** end ***