California Militia
and National Guard Unit Histories
Emmet Life Guard
(Emmet Guard)
San Francisco's Irish-American
Hall. Located at 818 Howard Street, this building served as the
armory for the Emmet Guard and other ethnic Irish units of the
California National Guard.
(Lone Mountain College
Collection of Stereographs by Eadweard Muybridge, 1867-1880 )
Official or Other Titles:
Emmet Life Guard, Company H, 2nd (Irish)
Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, California Militia
After 24 July 1866, Emmet Guard, Company
H, 2nd (Irish) Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, National Guard
of California (NGC)
After 12 May 1868, Emmet Guard, Company
E, 1st (Irish) Infantry Battalion, 2nd Brigade, NGC
After 24 February 1871, Emmet Guard, Company
E, 3rd (Irish) Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, NGC
Location: City
and County of San Francisco
Armory: Irish-American
Hall, 818 Howard Street.
Mustered in: November
18, 1862
Date of Disbanding: June 1, 1881 Inclusive dates of units papers: 1862-1881
Unit papers on file at the California
State Archives
a. Organization Papers 1 document (1862)
b. Bonds none
c. Correspondence (Unclassified letters) 49 documents (1862-1881)
d. Election Returns 16 documents (1862-1881)
e. Exempt Certificates, Applications for none
f. Muster Rolls, Monthly returns 57 documents (1863-1881)
g. Oaths Qualifications 180 documents (1865-1881)
h. Orders none
i. Receipts, invoices 12 documents (1863-1881)
j. Requisitions 12 documents (1862-1880)
k. Resignations 1 document (1880)
l. Target Practice Reports 10 documents (1871-1880)
m. Other Report of Inspection, 2 documents (1880-1881)
Public Property, 2 documents (1868-1871) and Proceedings of a
Court of Inquiry, 2 documents (1880)
Robert Emmet (4 March 1778 – 20 September
1803) was an Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel
leader. He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in
1803 and was captured, tried and executed for high treason.
Robert Emmet came from a wealthy Protestant
family who sympathised with Irish Catholics and their lack of
fair representation in Parliament. The Emmet family also sympathised
with the American Revolution. While his own efforts to rebel
against British rule failed, his actions and speech after his
conviction inspired his compatriots.
Dress Uniform of the Emmet Life Guard,
1870
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