Brooklyn Home Guards
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Tuesday, 25 June 1861, page 2
The Brooklyn Home Guards have extended an invitation to the Home
Guards of Jamestown, Newport, Covington and Cincinnati to meet them in Brooklyn
tomorrow, Wednesday, evening, where they will be addressed by the Rev Mr.
Pierce. Should they all meet together, it would indeed be a grand parade.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, Wednesday, 21 August 1861, page 2
The Home Guards of Jamestown, Brooklyn and Newport, have concluded to join together and form a regiment for the protection of the neutrality laws of Kentucky. These companies will meet at an early day to elect a Colonel for the regiment and we hear named as candidates for that office Z B Coffin, M J King, Gus Artsman, Captain Hermann, Peter Constans, Captain William E Air, Colonel R B McCracken, Captain J P Jackson, Colonel Kennett, Major Root and Henry Gassaway, either of whom would make a most efficient officer.