THE LECOMPTE GUARDS, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, 1890

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THE LECOMPTE GUARDS

The Lecompte Guards were organized in April, 1861, with William M. Levy,
captain; R. E. Burke, first lieutenant; J. F. Scarborough, second lieutenant;
S. B. Robertson, third lieutenant.  This command was mustered into the Second
Louisiana Infantry, and served until the close of the war; only seventeen men
remained to be muster out; of this number, very few are now living.  The
sergeants were T. P. Chaplin, G. P. Rains, L. D. Johnson and G. W. Kearney;
the corporals, W. A. Hollon, E. J. Miles, J. S. Kearney, and A. W. Hamilton;
Smith Noel was standard bearer, and Dr. C. Hamlin, surgeon. This command left
on the steamer "Rapides," April 27, 1861, 107 strong.  Capt. W. M. Levy,
editor of the Natchitoches Chronicle, and captain of the Lecompte Guards, was
promoted colonel of the Second Louisiana Infantry, vice De Russy, resigned, in
August, 1861; at this time J. H. Reid commenced to recruit his select cavalry
company