It differs slightly from that of the oath of enlistment that enlisted members recite when they enter the service.
Pierson declined to re-enlist after his three-year term of enlistment expired in 1864.
Last year about three-quarters of Army volunteers who completed their first term of enlistment, and nearly as many marines, chose not to re-enlist.
Nevertheless, black Northern opinion eventually coalesced in support of enlistment.
And yet citizenship failed to compete with the lure of enlistment in an imagined jihadi militia.
The regiment soon disbanded after its three-month term of enlistment expired.
The third, Connecticut, offers tuition waivers to all qualified veterans, no matter their place of enlistment.
Not all males of enlistment age will now be required to serve, but rather only a small proportion.
All males of enlistment age are obliged to spend four months in military training, following which they become part of the reserve.
Perhaps his most unexpected conclusion was that ideology and political grievances played a minimal role during the initial stages of enlistment.
Mutinies were sparked by misunderstandings over terms of enlistment, poor food and clothing, gross arrears of pay, and the decline in the purchasing power of the dollar.
