California Militia
and National Guard Unit Histories
Jackson Dragoons
Official or Other Titles:
Jackson Dragoons, Company I, 1st Cavalry
Regiment, 2nd Brigade, California Militia (CM)
After May 1863, Jackson Dragoons, Company
C, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, CM
After 29 August 1866, Jackson Dragoons,
Company C, 1st Cavalry Battalion, National Guard of California
Location: City
and County of San Francisco
Armory: Southeast
corner of Minna and New Montgomery Streets (1872)
Mustered in: March
16, 1863
Mustered out:
June 11, 1881 Inclusive dates of units papers: 1863-1891
Unit papers on file at the California
State Archives
a. Organization Papers 3 docs (1863)
b. Bonds 2 docs (1863-1867)
c. Correspondence (Unclassified letters) 28 docs (1863-1891)
d. Election Returns 13 docs (1863-1879)
e. Exempt Certificates, Applications for 2 docs (1877)
f. Muster Rolls, Monthly returns 69 docs (1864-1881)
g. Oaths Qualifications 102 docs (1864-1881)
h. Orders none
i. Receipts, invoices 7 docs (1867-1878)
j. Requisitions 7 docs (1863-1879)
k. Resignations 6 docs (1863-1879)
l. Target Practice Reports 10 docs (1866-1880)
m. Other Public Property, 1 doc (1866)
Extracts from and Link to Official History:
"Reorganized August 29, 1866 as
N.G.C., 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry, Co. C, upon admission in the
National Guard."
"The correspondence indicates
that the Jackson Dragoons mustered in as Co. I up until May,
1863 then the letters bear the Co. C designation."
