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C Troop, 1st Squadron, 153rd Cavalry ("Charlie Troop") of the Florida Army National Guard was reorganized in 2006-07 from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 124th Infantry. The Tallahassee-based company has official history dating back to about 1897. However, the company, like the 124th Infantry Regiment claims its roots back to the Civil War and Florida's 12 infantry regiments in the two Florida brigades. For nearly all of the over 100 years of the company's existence it has been an infantry unit. There were only six years where the unit was changed into an armored scout troop before reverting to an infantry company. Today, Charlie Troop, is a dismounted infantry reconnaissance troop. ==Post Civil War and Spanish–American War (1897-1916)== The first post-Civil War unit in Tallahassee was organized as Company C, 4th Battalion, Florida State Troops, the "Governor's Guards", on March 4, 1897; one company among 20 throughout the State Troops.〔 Company C conducted their first "annual camp of instruction" at Camp Henderson on Leon Heights near Tallahassee with all of the Florida State Troops during May 18 – 25, 1897. During this encampment two U.S. Army officers, Captain Thomas M. Woodruff and Hunter Liggett of the 5th U. S. Infantry, acted as instructor and inspector. “All of the companies have obtained a considerable degree of excellence, but Company C, Fourth Battalion, organized in Tallahassee only in February, was deserving of the greatest praise in proficiency and progress,” Major General Patrick Houstoun, Adjutant General. Captain Liggett rated the whole Florida State Troops, “Proficiency in battalion drill, fair in close order; fair in extended order; in ceremonies, excellent. Guard mounting very well done.” During this period, units had one drill per week, usually practicing the manual of arms and simpler company movements. In 1898, Florida was asked by the U.S. government to provide one regiment of 12 companies for service in the Spanish–American War. Company C was disbanded on May 23, 1898 along with other units to meet this requirement. While many from Tallahassee volunteered and served, they did not serve as a company from Tallahassee. In fact, the 20 companies from around the state were consolidated, reorganized, and mustered into federal service 20–25 May 1898 at Tampa as the 1st Florida Volunteer Infantry. The Florida regiment did not deploy overseas and eight of the companies were mustered out 3 December 1898 at Tampa and four companies mustered out 27 January 1899 at Huntsville, Alabama. The Florida units were reorganized 17–18 August 1899 in the Florida State Troops as the 1st and 2nd Regiments of Infantry.〔 The infantrymen from Tallahassee were reorganized as Company D, 1st Florida Infantry in 1899 and were activated for state service May 3–22, 1901 to aid in relief during the Jacksonville Great Fire of 1901. Company D disbanded July 15, 1904. The unit was reorganized as Company C, 1st Infantry on June 7, 1907 and conducted a joint coast defense exercise in Pensacola in the same year. Company C was activated for state duty from October 30 to November 15, 1912 to help restore order during the violent Railway Strike in Jacksonville. The unit was redesignated Company I, 1st Florida Infantry on March 19, 1915. It was disbanded June 14, 1916, for falling below a Federal inspection standard.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Troop C, 1-153 Cavalry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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