28th Regiment United States Colored Troops - Service

Service

  • Organized December 24, 1863
  • Battle of the Crater at the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, on July 30, 1864
  • Moved to the Mexican border in Texas as part of the American response to the French intervention in Mexico
  • Mustered out on November 8, 1865

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Famous quotes containing the word service:

    You had to face your ends when young
    ‘Twas wine or women, or some curse
    But never made a poorer song
    That you might have a heavier purse,
    Nor gave loud service to a cause
    That you might have a troop of friends.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    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)