The "City Guard": A History of Company "B" First Regiment Infantry, N. G. C. During the Sacremento Campaign, July 3 to 26, 1894 / Including a Brief History of the Company Since Its Organization March 31, 1854, to July 3, 1894

DURING THE SACRAMENTO CAMPAIGN
July 3 to 26, 1894
INCLUDING
A Brief History of the Company since its Organization March 31, 1854, to July 3, 1894
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Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1895, By Company B, “City Guard,” 1st Reg. N. G. C., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
To the members of the “City Guard,” past, present, and to come, this, our Company’s maiden effort, is respectfully dedicated.
CONTENTS.
PREFACE.
On September 1, 1894, shortly after the return of the company from its campaign at Sacramento, a committee of four was appointed, to be known as the history committee, to gather as much material concerning that campaign as possible, and to put it in a readable and concise form. The following were appointed: Lieutenant George Filmer, Corporal A. McCulloch, Privates W. J. Hayes and Wm. D. O’Brien.
The committee began its work enthusiastically and at once, as they believed that the most beneficial results could be attained by “striking while the iron is hot.” Their progress was necessarily slow; but when taken in connection with the circumstances, that the committee were engaged in earning their livelihood during the day, and thus limited in their work upon the history to their spare moments, and further, that they also took great care to prevent inaccuracies from creeping into their labors, the progress made, when viewed in this light, cannot be said to be unusually slow.
The idea of publishing a history was not an original idea, but rather it is the result of the gradual development of an incipient idea by a process of evolution containing three distinct steps. First it was only intended to have a short account written of the campaign and pasted in the company’s scrapbook; then, with this as a basis, the idea developed into the form of a printed pamphlet, and finally blossomed into the shape in which it now appears.