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.