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The Home Guard was vastly different from the National Guard in uniform, weaponry and equipage.
The M1911 would have appeared as a magazine article in 'Arms and the Man' and that's as close as a Guardsman would've gotten to one, and no one was guarding the spruce trees, because they didn't know they might have to - they were just spruce trees at that time and not war materiel.
The common weapon was a shotgun, though Model 1894 Winchesters do appear in photos.
The National Guard wouldn't've had much better - their uniforms would've been closer to SAW-issue than anything, and the Trapdoor rifle was in universal issue across the states, with Colt .DA .38s filling the very few holsters available.
The only way the National Guard got plussed up was 'federalization' for the Mexican Border and subsequent Great War, when they all got the latest uniforms and gear - much like today.
Postwar, the NG kept what the Regulars gave them - some of their M1911s, they would keep until turned in for M9s in the late 1980s.
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