Service
The battery was organized at Burlington, Wisconsin and mustered in for three years on January 27, 1862 under the command of Captain Cyrus H. Johnson. It was mustered out on September 30, 1865 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Famous quotes containing the word service:
“Our chief want in life, is, someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him we are easily great.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)
“It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?”
—Public Service Announcement.