Assemble for Federal Service!

Here is a great photo of Company A of the First Regiment assembling in the streets of York, Nebraska sometime in April 1898. Companies of the Nebraska National Guard assembled at their home communities before traveling to Lincoln or Omaha to be mustered into federal service. The First Regiment of the Nebraska National Guard assembled at Camp Alvin Saunders on the state fairgrounds in Lincoln on April 26 and 27. The First Regiment's muster-in was completed on May 10 as they became the First Nebraska Infantry, United States Volunteers.

Photo is from the Nebraska State Historical Society collection. Information is from The Fighting First Nebraska: Nebraska's Imperial Adventure in the Philippines, 1898-1899 by Thomas D. Thiessen.