Orderly Sergeant's Book [of the Pendleton] "Red Shirts"
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Mss-0008
Original book and carbon typescript, consisting of the roll of the Redshirts on February 2, 1878 (74 names) and on August 28, 1880 (51 names); minutes of meetings held at Farmers Hall and Maxwell Hall in Pendleton listing elections, officers and resolutions; and correspondence (listed in the minutes) with the Adjutant and Inspector General E.W. Moise regarding their status as a state group or as an independent and private club which would offer its services to the state if needed.
The "Red Shirts" were organized as a mounted light artillery company on February 2, 1878. On August 28, 1880, the Redshirts disbanded, reorganized and called themselves the "Flying Artillery" and organized for the 1880 political campaign. The orderly sergeant from 1878-1880 was John A. H. Brinsdon.
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English
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