Service
The 24th Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on July 8, 1861.
The regiment was mustered out on August 6, 1864.
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Famous quotes containing the word service:
“It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”
—Public Service Announcement.
“In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“Service ... is love in action, love “made flesh”; service is the body, the incarnation of love. Love is the impetus, service the act, and creativity the result with many by-products.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)