Service
The 5th West Virginia Cavalry was organized from the 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment on January 26, 1864. The regiment was consolidated into a single battalion at Charles Town, West Virginia in September 1864 and was absorbed by the 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment on December 14, 1864.
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“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)
“In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)