Captains of the Ouachita Guards

The News Star of November 19, 1925, Page 11, announced that Griffin Studio was displaying pictures of the past Captains of the Ouachita Guards. This group was a precursor to the National Guards. This article also gives a year as to when the group was established:

Frank M. Witherspoon 1887 – 1888

James Trousdale 1889

George Selman 1890

Frank P. Stubbs 1891 and 1897 – 1898

George G. Weaks 1892

Thompson Wood Lee 1897

Eugene G. Courtney 1899

Allan Sholars 1900

Charles L. Oakley 1902 -1903

Harry C. Bailey 1904 – 1906

Richard Edward Bynum 1907 – 1909

Phillip M. Gayle 1909 – 1914

Richard A. Young, Jr. 1914 – 1918