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George Filmer

Best known for a detailed history of California’s Company B, First Regiment Infantry, this little-known writer left behind a vivid record of the Sacramento campaign of 1894. His surviving work feels part military chronicle, part memorial to the men and events he wanted preserved.

1 Audiobook

The "City Guard": A History of Company "B" First Regiment Infantry, N. G. C. During the Sacremento Campaign, July 3 to 26, 1894

The "City Guard": A History of Company "B" First Regiment Infantry, N. G. C. During the Sacremento Campaign, July 3 to 26, 1894

by California. Infantry. First Regiment. Company B, Irving B. Cook, George Filmer, W. J. Hayes, A. McCulloch, William D. O'Brien

About the author

George Filmer is a notably obscure author in the historical record, and the clearest confirmed trace of his work is The "City Guard": A History of Company "B" First Regiment Infantry, N. G. C. During the Sacramento Campaign, July 3 to 26, 1894. Library and bookseller records consistently credit him as an author or contributor to that volume.

That book centers on Company B of the California National Guard and the Sacramento campaign of 1894, suggesting Filmer’s strongest known connection was to military or regimental history rather than fiction. The work appears to have been preserved and reissued in later print and digital editions, which has helped keep his name in circulation even though biographical details about his life remain hard to confirm.

Because reliable personal information is scarce, it’s safest to remember him as a chronicler of a specific moment in California military history: someone whose writing helped document an episode that might otherwise have faded from view.