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George Filmer
Best known as a contributor to a detailed history of California's Company B, First Regiment Infantry, this little-documented writer is tied to a firsthand account of the Sacramento Campaign of 1894. His surviving work points to an interest in military service, civic duty, and local history.
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The "City Guard": A History of Company "B" First Regiment Infantry, N. G. C. During the Sacremento Campaign, July 3 to 26, 1894 Including a Brief History of the Company Since Its Organization March 31, 1854, to July 3, 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 little-known author whose name is most clearly connected with The "City Guard", a history of Company B, First Regiment Infantry, N.G.C., during the Sacramento Campaign of 1894. Project Gutenberg lists him as an author, and the digitized text of that book credits him alongside other contributors including Irving B. Cook, W. J. Hayes, A. McCulloch, and William D. O'Brien.
Because reliable biographical information about him is scarce in the sources available here, it is safest to view Filmer as one of several contributors to a collaborative historical record rather than as a widely documented literary figure. The work itself preserves a close-up account of California militia life in the late nineteenth century, giving his name an enduring place in regional and military history.
For listeners interested in overlooked writers, Filmer represents the kind of author whose importance comes less from fame than from preservation: his surviving credited work helps keep a specific moment in local history alive.