Service
13th Maine was organized at Portland, Maine and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on December 13, 1861.
The veterans and recruits of the 13th were consolidated to a single battalion and transferred to 30th Maine on December 25, 1864. Those soldiers who did not reenlist were discharged from service on January 5, 1865.
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Famous quotes containing the word service:
“The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.”
—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)
“The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“This was a great point gained; the archdeacon would certainly not come to morning service at Westminster Abbey, even though he were in London; and here the warden could rest quietly, and, when the time came, duly say his prayers.”
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