Members of the original Los Angeles Fifes and Drums attending the forty-third annual encampment of California and Nevada, Grand Army of the Republic, in Oakland, April 19-23, 1910. First row: Bass Drummer A.M. Thornburg, chief bugler, Company E, Ninth Indiana cavalry; Drummer Robert Bain, Company B, Fifth Iowa infantry; Drummer Philo L. Case, Company D, Second Iowa infantry; Drummer S.H. Hazeldine, Company I, Thirty-eighth Iowa infantry; Drummer M.J. Spotwood, Company B, One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania infantry; Drummer N.D. Daniels, Company D, Forty-eighth Iowa infantry; Drummer Lorenzo Taylor, Company B, Sixty-fourth New York infantry; Drummer Ben F. Hillier, Company A, Eighth Wisconsin infantry. This photo is courtesy of the Wayne & Pamela Sherman Collection.
The San Francisco Call, April 19, 1910
The party was greeted at the station by a reception committee of more than a hundred veterans, wives and daughters, and the entire company marched to the G.A.R. headquarters at the St. Mark hotel, led by the veteran drum corps of Los Angeles, composed of 22 members, who carried the same drums and fifes that went with them through the war.
