Entering the 2024 season, the Madison Scouts are currently the oldest continuously active junior corps.

[2] The corps originated on December 3, 1920 under the direction of Lewis Kessler and maintained an active performance schedule through the end of 1925.

Leadership changes in the Council combined with flagging participation in Scouting resulted in the corps activity being paused in the fall of 1925.

The advisory committee to guide the musical unit included none other than Lewis Kessler, the original corps director.

At the first DCI World Championships in Whitewater, Wisconsin, the Scouts finished in fourteenth in a competition that featured thirty-nine corps from the East, the South, the West Coast, the Midwest and Great Plains, and Canada.

In 1980, after sixteen previous appearances and ten prior Finals, the Madison Scouts tied for 1st place with The Cavaliers at VFW Nationals in Chicago.

[6] They presented clinics and performed in exhibition at contests that included all of the corps from Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Germany.

The resulting co-ed Capital Sound Drum and Bugle Corps would operate under the Madison Scouts organization.

Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps was also brought into the organization in 1997, relocating from Montgomery, Alabama to Lexington, Kentucky.