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Official Name: Cailfornia Volunteers, Company C, First Brigade, Sixth Division

Location: Oroville, Butte County

Mustered in: June 1861
Mustered out: Unknown

Name	Date of Rank	Date of Commission
Edward B. Willis, Captain	June 6, 1861	June 27, 1861
Janes A. Wardwell, First Lieutenant	June 6, 1861	June 27, 1861

The California. Volunteers, Company C of Oroville, Butte County was organized under the laws of the State, June 6, 1861, with Edward B. Willis as Captain and James A
Wardwell as First Lieutenant. The corps had a membership of sixty men, but no arms were issued to this company as they immediately tendered their services to the Governor and were accepted and mustered into the service of the United States as part of the First Infantry of California Volunteers.*

*Adjutant General Report, 1861, page 133

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Posted 24 December 2008

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