The Broom Brigades were originally established by the WCTU,and was a drill based upon Emory Upton's US Army drill manual. I have a reprint of the brigade manual, for brooms and fans, published in 1890. An illustration of a group of brigade members in Las Vegas in 1882 was published in Military Images Magazine, Jan.-Feb., 1996, and H.A.Ogden did an engraving of the "Sunflower Brigade", drilling at Hulett's Landing, on Lake George in 1883. It was printed in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in 1883.