Historic California Militia and
National Guard Units
Yankee Jim Rifles
Military Unit Designation:
Yankee Jim Rifles, Company E, 1st Infantry
Battalion, 4th Brigade, California Militia
After 1866, Yankee Jim Rifles, Company
E, 5th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, National Guard of California
Date of Organization: January 3, 1863
Date of Disbanding: December 19, 1867
Inclusive dates of units papers: 1863-1868
Geographical Location or Locations: Yankee
Jim's, Placer County
Unit Papers on file at the California
State Archives:
a. Organization Papers 1 document
(1863)
b. Bonds 1 document (1866)
c. Correspondence (Unclassified letters) 24 documents (1863-1867)
d. Election Returns 6 documents (1863-1867)
e. Exempt Certificates, Applications for none
f. Muster Rolls, Monthly returns 24 documents (1863-1867)
g. Oaths Qualifications 81 documents (1863-1867)
h. Orders none
i. Receipts, invoices 9 documents (1863-1868)
j. Requisitions 2 documents (1863-1866)
k. Resignations 1 document (1864)
l. Target Practice Reports 1 document (1866)
m. Other Public Property, 2 documents (1866)
Extracts from and Link to Official History:
"...the unit was reorganized July
31, 1866. This reorganization designated the volunteers as Company
E, Yankee Jim Rifles, Fifth Infantry of Regiment,
"...the Adjutant General deemed
it advisable to muster out Company E, Yankee Jim Rifles, and
on Dec. 31, 1867 the company was formally disbanded for inefficiency."
