Lineage

Organized 23 April 1825 in the Georgia Volunteer Militia at Macon as the Macon Volunteers. Mustered into federal service 18 February 1836 at Picolata, Florida as Captain Isaac G. Seymour’s Company 1st Battalion, Georgia Volunteers; mustered out 15 May 1836 in Florida. (Macon Guards organized in 1846 to include elements of the Macon Volunteers and Floyd Rifles; mustered into federal service 11 June 1846 at Columbus as an element of the 1st Georgia Volunteer Infantry; mustered out 31 May 1847 at New Orleans, Louisiana.) Mustered into Confederate service 21 April 1861 at Macon, Georgia. Macon Volunteers reorganized and redesignated 22 April 1861 as Company D, 2d Battalion, Georgia Infantry. Surrendered 9 April 1865 at Appomattox, Virginia.

Reorganized 11 April 1872 in the Georgia Volunteers at Macon, Georgia as the Macon Volunteers. Reorganized and redesignated 15 June 1874 as Company B, 2d Battalion. Reorganized and redesignated 23 January 1891 as Company B (Macon Volunteers), 2d Infantry Regiment. Mustered into federal service 11-14 May 1898 at Griffin, Georgia as Company F, 1st Georgia Volunteer Infantry; mustered out 18 November 1898 at Macon, Georgia and resumed state status as Company B, 2d Infantry Regiment. (Georgia Volunteers redesignated 21 December 1899 as Georgia State Troops; redesignated 1 October 1905 as the Georgia National Guard.) Mustered into federal service 2 July 1916 at Macon, Georgia; drafted into federal service 5 August 1917. Reorganized and redesignated 20 August 1917 as Company B, 151is Machine Gun Battalion, an element of the 42d Division. Demobilized in May 1919 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. Reorganized and federally recognized 29 November 1920 in the Georgia National Guard at Macon, Georgia as Company H, 1st Infantry. Redesignated 8 March 1921 as Company B, 1st Infantry. Redesignated 1 July 1922 as Company B, 122d Infantry.

Reorganized and redesignated 28 November 1922 as Headquarters Company, 59th Infantry Brigade, an element of the 30th Division. Inducted into federal service 16 September 1940 at Macon, Georgia. Converted and redesignated 16 February 1942 as the 30th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, an element of the 30th Infantry Division. Redesignated 11 August 1943 as the 30th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized. Inactivated 17 November 1945 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Reorganized and federally recognized 12 December 1946 at Macon, Georgia as Headquarters Company, 121st Infantry, an element of the 48th Infantry Division.

Converted and redesignated 1 November 1955 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Combat Command B, 48th Armored Division. Reorganized and redesignated 16 April 1963 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade, 48th Armored Division. Converted and redesignated 1 January 1968 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Brigade, 30th Infantry Division. Consolidated 1 December 1973 with the 182d Military Police Company and consolidated unit reorganized and redesignated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 48th Infantry Brigade. Ordered into active federal service 30 November 1990 at Macon, Georgia; released 10 April 1991 from active federal service and reverted to state control.

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