page_title: Suwannee Rifles
section_title: Commanders
hierarchical_section_title: Suwannee Rifles / Commanders
caption_attribution_description: English: CPT Mahone Rees, Jr. commanded Company E, 124th Infantry of Live Oak, Florida, circa 1/29/1935 - circa 1940.
context_page_description: The 868th Engineer Company "Suwannee Rifles" is a unit of the Florida Army National Guard, stationed in Live Oak, Florida. The company has one of the oldest continuous lineages in the Florida National Guard, starting out as an independent company of infantry in 1884. During its first 71 years, the Suwannee Rifles served as an infantry company and deployed as Company E, 124th Infantry during World War II. After WWII the unit reorganized again as infantry, then as an armor company for thirteen years, and since December 1968 the Suwannee Rifles has been an engineer company.
context_section_description: The following officers are known to have commanded the company during its existence:
  C. H. Tedder, Company D, 3rd Battalion, Florida State Troops (c. 1889-1892)
  L. K. Kemmerlin, Company D, 3rd Battalion, Florida State Troops (c. 1893-6/22/1896)
  George E. Porter, Company A, 4th Battalion, Florida State Troops (6/22/1896-) 
  William L. Tedder, Company L, 1st Florida Volunteer Regiment (1898)
  W. H. Lyle, Company E, 1st Florida Infantry (10/1/1900-1904).
  A. E. Leslie, Company E, 1st Florida Infantry (7/9/1907-)
  W. H. Lyle, Company E, 1st Florida Infantry (2/12/1908-)
  J. Hinley, Company E, 1st Florida Infantry (7/30/1910-1912) (disbanded)(1917-) 
  Yandell O. Brown, 3rd Separate Company of Infantry (2/11/1920-)
  Bernard L. Rhodes, Company E, 154th Infantry (5/18/1921-)
  Robert G. White, Company E, 124th Infantry (2/26/1923-)
  Mahone Rees, Jr., Company E, 124th Infantry (1/29/1935-circa 1940)
  Burnice H. Bell, Company E, 124th Infantry (c. 1940)
  Samuel J. White, Company E, 124th Infantry (10/8/1946-)
  Elizabeth A. Evans, 868th Engineer Co. (07/2006 - 10/2008)
  Terry M. Giles, 868th Engineer Co. (11/2008-2/2010)
caption: Captain Mahone Rees, Jr. circa 1939 mobilized Company E for WWII.
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