California Military History
Riots, Protests and Other Civil Disturbances
San Francisco Vigilance Committees (1852, 1856 and 1877)
1856
The Law and Order View of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856: Taken from the Correspondence of Governor J. Neely Johnson (1935)
The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1856: An Estimate of A Private Citizen
William T. Sherman and the California Militia
Sherman and the San Francisco Vigilantes: Unpublished Letters of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, California Militia.
The San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856
Stockton Emergency, July 1876
Chico Emergency, March 1877
The Sand Lot Riots of 1879 and Kearneyism (includes Description of the National Guard of California in San Francisco during the 1870s)
Sacramento Emergency, April 1882
Moquelumnes Grant Emergency, 1884
Redlands Emergency, August 1893
The Railroad Strike, July 1894
Official History
Showdown at the Shops
The City Guard: A history of Company "B" First Regiment Infantry, N. G. C. during the Sacramento Campaign, July 3 to 26, 1894 (1895)
Crusade or Civil War: The Pullman Strike in California
The Great Railroad Strike of 1894 in Southern California
Adjutant General's Office General Order No. 14, Court of Inquiry, 1894 Pullman Strike
Strike at McCloud, June 1909
Official History
The McCloud River Affair of 1909: A Study in the Use of State Troops
Wheatland Riot, August 1913
"We Are Not Slaves": The Photographic Record of the Wheatland Hop Riot: The First Images of Protesting Farm Workers in America
Sacramento Emergency, March 1917
Folsom Prison Riot, 1927
Official History
San Francisco Dock Strike 1934
Official History
The Story of Company L: Santa Ana's Own
1965 Watts Riots
A Report Concerning the California National Guard's Part in Supressing the Los Angeles Riot, August 1965
Operation Safeguard: Watts Riots - 1965
YouTube
1981 Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Station Protests
1992 Los Angeles Riots
Civil-Military Relations in Domestic Support Operations. The California National Guard in Los Angeles 1992 Riots and Northridge Earthquake of 1994
The California Army National Guard and the Los Angeles Riot, April and May 1992
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