Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . nal Guard of California until May 29,1911, when Battery A, Field Artillery, of Los Angeles, was May 31, 1911, Battery B, Field Artillery, at Oakland, was organ-ized, and on December 14, 1912, Battery C, Field Artillery, was organ-ized at Stockton. On December 20, 1912, headquarters were organizedat Oakland and the First Battalion of Field Artillery, National Guardof California, completed. The National Guard of California now hasa complete battalion of headquarters a
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . nal Guard of California until May 29,1911, when Battery A, Field Artillery, of Los Angeles, was May 31, 1911, Battery B, Field Artillery, at Oakland, was organ-ized, and on December 14, 1912, Battery C, Field Artillery, was organ-ized at Stockton. On December 20, 1912, headquarters were organizedat Oakland and the First Battalion of Field Artillery, National Guardof California, completed. The National Guard of California now hasa complete battalion of headquarters and three batteries of field artil-lery, with modern three-inch guns and as fully equipped, with the excep-tion of horses, as the Regular Army field artillery, thus giving to theNational Guard of California its normal balance of field artillery for thebrigade of infantry. Nearly all the officers of the headquarters and of Batteries A, B andC, of the California Field Artillery, have attended the artillery schoolsheld at Fort Riley, Kansas, and Sparta, Wisconsin, several of these REPORT OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL. 17. -14014 18 REPORT OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL. officers have attended two or three tmies, and are fairly well instructedin their duties. Several of the officers have graduated from the Schoolof Fire at Fort Sill. Okahonia. Both Batteries A and B participatedin the .joint maneuver campaign held south of San Francisco, in 1912,and rendered excellent .service. The report of the Regular Army in-structor, on the work of these batteries at the .joint maneuvers, eon-tains the statement that one of these batteries with thirty days practice,mainly to be used in breaking in artillery horses, could take itsposition in the field with Regular Army batteries and render reasonablygood service, and that the other battery, after a short training, wouldalso be fit to take the field for active service. Since the muster in ofthese batteries they have liad field firing every year under a Regular
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