Service
The 8th Indiana Volunteer Infantry was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana on April 21, for a three-month enlistment.
The regiment mustered out of service on August 6, 1861.
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“Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.”
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