Service
The 16th Maine was organized at Augusta, Maine, and mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on August 14, 1862.
The regiment was discharged from service on June 5, 1865.
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Famous quotes containing the word service:
“O good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“We too are ashes as we watch and hear
The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise
Of one whose promised thoughts of other days
Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed,
The service record of his youth wiped out,
His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)