Los Angeles herald., 1892-01-01
The FIRST BRIGADE.
Southern CALIFORNIA; Citizen
SOldiery.
Considerable Progress During
the Year.
A Complete Showing of Its Present
Status.
Changes in the OficiaI Personnel "A
Naval Battalion The Signal
Corps-The Total En-
rollment.

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national guardsmen lead the division.
The Importance of a proper maintenance
and encouragement of the militia by the
citizens cannot be over-estimated. Ger
tain it is that if the merchants and citi-
zens in general would give one-half the
support and manifest one-half the in
terest in the state soldiers shown in the
eastern states California would stand in
the front rank in all the standards of
excellence. Today California, with a
coast line covering hundreds of miles,
has only an available force of 4050 Off
GERS and men. The same coast line on
the Atlantic seaboard can show to-
tai of $4,000 National guardsmen.
Merchants, manufacturers, indeed all
classes of citizens have vital interest
in the maintenance of the National
guard if they will only stop to consider
| the subject. In case of sudden invas-
sion, California would virtually be at
the mercy of the invaders. 1t is the
duty of every good citizen to give his
best support and encouragement to the
National guard. Southern Californians
in particular should work for the en-
largement of the guard. By reference
to general orders of July twill be found
that out OF total enrolment of 4157
men, ,2020 or one-half are comprised in
the second brigade with headquarters
at San Francisco, which does not leave
very formidable force for the north
and south of the state, to say the least.
During the year past there have been
quite large number of changes in the
official personnel of the first brigade,
composed of the Seventh and Ninth
regiments, the Naval battalion at San
Diego, and the Signal corps, located
here.
The officers of the first brigade are as
| follows: Brigadier-G General E. p. john
son, commanding; Lieutenant Colonel
L. S. Butler, assistant adjutant-general
Lieutenant-Colon w. G. Cochran, sur
geon Major E. L. Stearn, ordnance
officer; Major Cyrus Willard, engineer
officer; Major G. Wiley Wells, Judge ad-
vocate; Major A. w. Barrett, quarter
master; Major George S. Bonebrake,
paymaster; Major Driffell, brigade in
spector; Major George S. Dannels, COM
missary; Major Horace M. Russell, in
spector of rifle practice; Major M. T.
Owens, signal officer; Captain HI. q. Os-
borne and Captain A. G. Jones, aides
de-camp; staff orderlies, Harry R. Hath
eway, w. E. Hutchinson.
/ The field and staff officers of the
Seventh regiment are: Colonel COM
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tenant colonel, James L. Rowland
major, M. L. Stern; aadjutant, John B.
Franklin; ordnance officer, Lieut.. f. G.
Smythe; quartermaster, Lieut.. D. w.
Parmar commissary, Lieut.. G. N. Will
son; surgeon, Frank X. Ainsworth;
paymaster, Lieut.. j. S. Collins; inspec-
tor rifle practice, John Last; chaplain,
Chas. A. Kienzel; sergeant, Maj. j HI.
Keller.
The line officers of the regiment,
among whom there have been many
changes during the past year, are as
follows:
A-Captain, Frank A. Martin; first
lieutenant, Henry Steere; second lieu
tenant, F. l.. Baldwin.
B-Captain, N. s. Bangham; first
lieutenant, w. r. Satliffe; second lieu
tenant, P. ]. Cook.
C-Captain, Theo Meyer; first lieu
tenant. II. D. Alfonso; second lieutenant.
A. G. Reese.
D-Captaln, S. T. Black; first lieu
tenant, A. w. Browne; second lieuten-
ant, J. w. Hammond.
F-Captain, L. S. Chappalear; first
lieutenant, M. L. Shaw; second lieu
tenant, M. Anderson.
G-Captain, A. T.. Lewis first lieu
tenant, William Kroeger; second lieu
tenant, E. Browning.
The field and staff officers of the Ninth
regiment are Colonel Commanding E.
B. Spileman; Lieutenant Colonel G. L.
Bryant; Major Charles S. McKelvey !;
Major John r. Berry, adjutant Major
Thomas L. McGee, surgeon; Cap
tain John Heron, chaplain; Lieu
tenant James E. Mack, quartermas.
ter; Lieutenant Charles T. Rice, COM
missary Lieutenant S. Harvile, paw
master; Lieutenant G. d. Ball, ord
nance officer; Lieutenant G. Lorbier,
inspector of rifle practice.
The company commissioned officers Of
the Ninth regiment are given below:
A-Captain, Edward E. Spileman !;
lieutenant, A. G. Thelin.
| D-Odptdlh3 IL. W. pCilIiICI. nISb lltu-
tenant, H. M. Daniels; second lieuten-
ant, R. N. Dodge.
C-Captain, James N. Keith; first
lieutenant, - -; second lieutenant,
S. r. Langworthy.
D-Captain, w. 0. Welsh; first lieu
tenant, -; second lieutenant, F. B.
Thomas.
E-Captain, E. M. Ducoe; first lieu
tenant, F. Muscott; second lieutenant,
F-Captain, H. T. Matthews; first
lieutenant, N. A. Ulm; second lieuten-
ant, P. s. Roper.
new addition to the First brigade
during the past year was the formation
of company A, of naval battalion at
San Diego. The roster shows "a men
with Thomas A. Nerney as lieutenant,
commanding Edward H. Miller, junior
lieutenant; Frank M. Simpson, senior
ensign; VIM. d. Bloodgood, junior en-
sign.
The signal corps of the First brigade
! consists of twenty-one men, under the
command OF First Lieut.. William E.
Darricott. The corps can we'll be proud
of its work for the past year. Many of
the charts prepared by them will COM
pare favorably with regular army work.
| The following statistics, taken from