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:
“Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“O good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!”
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“Barnard’s greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal arts ... It was Barnard’s responsibility to keep alive in the minds of young people the great liberal tradition of the past and the study of philosophy, of history, of Greek.”
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