The following are California State Militia units that were active in the state of California between 1851 and 1861, prior to the American Civil War.
Volunteer Companies of the California State Militia 1850-1860
Amador County Amador Rangers, Jackson, 1858 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Amador Rangers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011 Utah War Volcano Guard, Volcano, 1858 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Volcano Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011 Utah War
Butte County Oroville Guard, Oroville, December 22, 1856 - July 5, 1857 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Oroville Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011
Calaveras County First Calaveras Guard, Mokelumne Hill, 1852 - 1853 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: First Calaveras Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011 Jesus Maria Guard, Jesus Maria, 1854-1857 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Jesus Maria Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011
El Dorado County 1st Company, Mud Springs 1850Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County California with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominentmen and Pioneers. Paolo Sioli, Oakland 1883. p.157-159 El Dorado Expedition 2nd Company, Placerville 1850,Historical Souvenir p.157-159 El Dorado Expedition 3rd Company, Placerville 1850 El Dorado Expedition Placerville Guard, Placerville, 1855 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Placerville Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011 Coloma Greys, Coloma, 1857 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Coloma Greys, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011 Confidence Guard, Placerville, 1860 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Confidence Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011
Humboldt County Union Volunteers, Union, 1855 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Union Volunteers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011 Klamath War Trinity Rangers, Pardee's Ranch, Redwood Creek, 1858 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Trinity Rangers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011 Wintoon War/Bald Hills War Humboldt Volunteers, Hydesville, 1860 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Humboldt Volunteers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011 Bald Hills War
Klamath County Klamath Mounted Rangers, Crescent City, 1854-1856 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Klamath Mounted Rangers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011 Klamath War Coast Rangers, Crescent City, 1854-1855 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Coast Rangers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 8, 2011 Klamath War Klamath Rifles, Young's Ferry, 1855 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Klamath Rifles, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011 Klamath War Mounted Coast Rifles, Crescent City, 1855 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Mounted Coast Rifles, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011 Klamath War Salmon Guard, Sawyers Bar, 1855-1856 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Salmon Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011 Klamath War Citizens of Crescent City, Crescent City, 1856 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Citizens of Crescent City, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011
Del Norte County (from 1857) Crescent Rifles, Crescent City, 1856-1861 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Crescent Rifles, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011
Los Angeles County Los Angeles Guard, Los Angeles, 1853 - 1881 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Los Angeles Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011http://www.militarymuseum.org/SoCal.pdf J.M. Scammel, Military Units of Southern California 1853-1862, California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. XXIX, Number 3. Operated against gangs of robbers or raiding bands of Indians. Los Angeles Rangers, Los Angeles, 1853 - 1857 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Los Angeles Rangers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011 Sheriff's auxiliaries vs organized bands of outlaws Monte Rangers, Los Angeles, 1854 - 1859 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Monte Rangers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011 Operated against gangs of robbers or raiding bands of Indians. Ringgold Light Artillery, Los Angeles, 1855 - 1857 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Ringgold Light Artillery, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011 City Guard, Los Angeles, 1855 - 1861 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: City Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011 "suppressing lawlessness" Lanceros de Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 1857 - 1861 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Lanceros de Los Angeles, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011 "for the preservation of order, the chastisement of criminals and the repression of outrages" Union Guard, Los Angeles, 1857 - 1859 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Union Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011 Southern Rifles, Los Angeles, 1857 - 1862 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Southern Rifles, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 13, 2011
Mariposa County Mariposa Battalion, Agua Fria, 1851 Mariposa War California and the Indian Wars: Mariposa Indian War, 1850-1851, by Warren A. Beck and Ynez D. Hasse California and the Indian Wars: The Mariposa War, By David A. Smith, Historian, The Burdick Military History Project, San Jose State University California State Rangers, Quartzburg, 1853 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: California State Rangers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 14, 2011 Hunt for Joaquin Murrieta Mariposa Guard, Mariposa, 1856 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Mariposa Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 14, 2011 Mariposa Mounted Riflemen, Mariposa, 1858-1861? California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Mariposa Mounted Riflemen, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 14, 2011 Utah War
Nevada County Nevada Rifles, Nevada City, 1858-1863 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Nevada Rifles, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 14, 2011 Utah War, Paiute War
Placer County Mountain Blues, Iowa Hill, 1855 - 1856 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Mountain Blues, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 Placer Rifles, Auburn, 1856 - 1857 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Placer Rifles, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011
Plumas County Plumas Rangers, Quincy, 1855 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Plumas Rangers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011
Sacramento County Sutter Rifles, Sacramento, 1852 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Sutter Rifles, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 Sacramento Guard, Sacramento, 1855 - 1856 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Sacramento Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 Independent City Guard or City Guard, Sacramento, 1856 - 1880 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Independent City Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 Paiute War Sacramento Cadets, Sacramento, 1856-1857 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Sacramento Cadets, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011
San Bernardino County San Bernardino Rough and Ready Cavalry, San Bernardino, 1855-1857 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: San Bernardino Rough and Ready Cavalry, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 Operated against gangs of robbers or raiding bands of Indians. First Light Dragoons, San Bernardino, 1856-1857 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: First Light Dragoons, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 Operated against gangs of robbers or raiding bands of Indians. San Bernardino Rangers, San Bernardino, 1856-1862 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: San Bernardino Rangers, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 Operated against gangs of robbers or raiding bands of Indians.
San Diego County Fitzgerald Volunteers, San Diego, 1851 - 1852 William Ellsworth Smythe, History of San Diego, 1542-1908: an account of the rise and progress of the pioneer settlement on the Pacific coast of the United States, Volume 1, History Co., San Diego, 1908, pp.189-190 Garra Revolt San Diego Guard, San Diego, 1856 - 1863 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: San Diego Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 Operated against gangs of robbers or raiding bands of Indians.
San Francisco County First California Guard, San Francisco, 1849-1879 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: First California Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 The first artillery company in the California State Militia. Garra Revolt Washington Guard, San Francisco, 1849-1851? Colonel Norman S. Marshall and Chief Warrant Officer Mark J. Denger, The Creation of the National Guard of California, California Center for Military History. In 1851, Indian disturbances in San Diego called for troops, and two companies were organized from the California Guard, Washington Guard, and Empire Guard, the only existing military companies in San Francisco at that time. However, before transportation to San Diego could be arranged the trouble had blown over. Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Vol. XXIV: History of California Vol VII, History Co., San Francisco, 1890 p454-455 Garra Revolt Empire Guard, San Francisco, 1849/1850?-1851?Marshall and Denger, The Creation ..., op. cit. Garra Revolt Eureka Light Horse Guard, San Francisco, 1852-1854 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Eureka Light Horse Guard, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 First Light Dragoons, San Francisco, 1852-1880 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: First Light Dragoons, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011 Marion Rifles, San Francisco, 1852-1861 California State Militia and National Guard Unit Histories: Marion Rifles, from The California State Military Museum accessed on September 22, 2011