Scope and content:

• Correspondence: None
• Electorial Lists: None
• Muster In Rolls: 43 docs (1863-1865)
• Muster Rolls, Monthly returns: 16 docs (1864-1866)
• Post Returns: None
• Muster Out Rolls: 16 docs (1863-1866)
• Descriptive Lists: 8 docs (1864)
• Other: None

Other descriptive data:

January 1, 1862

April 16, 1866

Headquarters

Camp Sumner, Presidio Barracks, Post Lippitt, Fort Humboldt, Benecia Barracks, Fort Miller (Calif.) Fort Yuma, San Pedro River, Fort Grant (Arizona), San Francisco (Calif.).

"This regiment at San Francisco, California and Carson City, Nevada, during the months of October and December, 1861, the earliest enlistments having been made September 2, 1861. Its first Colonel was Francis J. Lippitt, who was mustered out with the regiment during the month of October, 1864. He was made Brevet Brigadier-General, March 13, 1865, for faithful service during the war. Colonel Lippitt came to California as Captain in Stevenson's New York Regiment, in 1847; he was afterwards a member of the Constitutional Convention, held in Monterey, in 1849."

"On the muster out of the original regiment, in October, 1865, the veterans, together with new recruits, were again organized into a regiment... "This regiment finally mustered out in the spring of 1866." Records of California Men, R.H. Orton, Sacramento, 1890, p. 418.

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