The Jackson Guards were organized at Jacksonport in Jackson County, Arkansas, by Capt. A. B. Pickett on Sunday morning, May 5, 1861. The company marched to the Presbyterian Church, where it received a silk flag made by the women of Jacksonport; Miss Mary Tom Caldwell gave the presentation speech, assisted by Miss Pauline Hudson and Miss Fannie Board, and Private S.S. Gause gave the acceptance speech. The company then marched to the steamboat Mary Patterson and, with Capt. Morg Bateman as owner and commander, departed for Memphis, Tennessee, and then Richmond, Virginia. As Company G of the 1st Arkansas Regiment Infantry, known as the Jackson Guards, it served in Col. Jas. F. Fagan's regiment, Gen. Lucus Polk's and D.C. Govan's brigades, Gen. Cleburne's division, Hardee Corps, Army of Tennessee. Its first elected officers were Capt. A.C. Pickett, 1st Lieut. L.C. Gause, 2nd Lieut. L.L. Moore, and 3rd Lieut. George Paine, with non-commissioned officers including James F. Hunter, W.B. Densford, John R. Loftin, Peter Bach, Clay Love, John M. Waddill, Samuel Shoup, Henry Clements, and W.E. Bevens. From 1862 to 1865 its officers included Capt. Sam Shoup, who was wounded on July 21 at Atlanta, 1st Lieut. James Waltham, who was killed at Kennesaw Mountain, 2nd Lieut. H.C. Lowe, who was wounded at Chickamauga and Jonesboro, and 3rd Lieut. John R. Loftin. The company engaged in the First Battle of Manassas, the blockade of the Potomac at Evansport, Shiloh, Farmington, Corinth, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, the 74 days from Dalton to Atlanta, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Springhill, Franklin, Nashville, and Bentonville.