Evening Star Newspaper, June 14, 1925, Page 100

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Maj. C. Eugene Edwards, District National Guard, re- Officers of the Washington Light Infantry Corps tired, photographed as captain wearing their distinctive full-dress uniform with bear of the Corcoran Cadet Corps staff officers. 1 in 1883. Older Wasl’lingtonians will r of the 80s and €0s. Many of thd gf:'ld braid and flowing plumes. a sions always elicited thunderous Washington Light Infantry Corps passing the Senate wing f the United States Capitol in J ?he ein:-mguration parapde of Second Lieut. Charles J. Harlow of the President Cleveland, March 4, Emmet Guard. 1885. < - S % Ordway Rifles, photographed whild wearing the regulation (United States at the left is First Lieut. Anton Steph National Guard Division, Army of the P 1 Non-commissioned officers of the Corcoran Cadet Corps wearing the company’s full-dress uniform. The headgear .was a helmet surmounted by a flowing white plume. Group photographed in front of the present National Guard Armory, 472 L street, about a quarter of a century ago. The late James F. Oyster, who was a member of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, photographed when he was a captain of the National Rifles. Henry Guillaume wearing the full-dress uniform of the National Rifles, photographed about the year 1887. This garb, consisting of red coat with gold trimmings and epau- lets, and white facings; dark trousers with broad white stripe, and a towering bearskin shako with gold tassel and gilt-metal chinstrap, was rem- iniscent of the British Foot Guards of the time of the Crimean War. An old picture of one of the members of the Washington Light Guard wearing the elab- orate gray uniform of that company. This organization, established in 1861 and reor- The Morton Cadets in their distinctive (black and white) uniform, photo- ganized in 1871, was disbanded graphed at Savannah, Ga., in 1896, when they won the title of “the champion about 1884. military company of the United States.” The Emmet Guard, which bore the designation in the District National Guard of “Company A,” 4th Battalion, and during the war with Spain was ; Company A, 1st District of Columbia Infantry, United States Volunteers. 2 Second Lieut. Thomas Marron, Bat- This photograph, in attack-repelling formation, was taken soon after the Capt. Cornelius T. Daly, —_— tery A, Light Artillery, D. C. N. G. This return of.the company from service in Cuba. The special uniform worn was photographed about 1888, when The officers and non-commissioned officers of the Corcoran Cad photograph, taken in 1895, shows the full- borrowed for the occasion and is representative of the garb of the infantry of he commanded the Marion wearing the reg_ulat}on (United States Army) full-dress uniform. Pict dress uniform, with artillery red plume on the period of 1812. Rifles. on Washington’s birthday anniversary, 1894. the helmet, similar to that worn by the Regular Army of that day.