*** 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 7--- County Council of Defense were forwarded to the Adjutant General, who in turn approved them and issued licenses to the four companies. The Sixth Company became the Eighty-fifth Company; the Seventh Company the Eighty-seventh Company and the Eighth Company the Ninety-first Company. On June 6, 1918, Major Sime, by direction of The Adjutant General, presided at the election of officers for the Eighty-sixth Company at which W. C. Sharpsteen was elected Captain, W. F. Chipman First Lieutenant and Felton Taylor Second Lieutenant. As soon as the officers for the four companies had been elected and certificates issued to them, application was made by the commanding officers to organize the companies as a battalion. This application was denied by The Adjutant General but upon the invitation of the commanding officers of the companies Major Sime continued to act as instructor in battalion drill. ARMS AND UNIFORMS. A most serious defect was the lack of arms, and after the companies had been drilled in all the movements that could be performed without arms, this was very keenly felt. Through the efforts of Lieutenant Chipman the use of forty rifles owned by The Nationals was procured for the Eighty-sixth Company. At about the same time the Eighty-fifth and Eighty-seventh Companies procured rifles in sufficient quantities to arm their men, and the members of the Ninety-First Company as well. The rifles of the Eighty-Fifth and Eighty-Sixth Companies were the old Springfield caliber .45, and those of the Eighty-seventh Company were Mausers. None of the rifles had bayonets, but ultimately bayonets for the rifles of the Eighty-sixth Company were purchased, and that company was then given instruction in the *** end ***