John Bennitt to his wife [Letter 166]

Notes:
Correspondence from John Bennitt of Centreville, Michigan to his wife Charlotte, July 11 and 12, 1864. During this time, Bennitt describes the battles in Atlanta from the vantage point of the hospitals. The 20th Army Corps leaves Atlanta for Savannah. Bennitt_s request to the Cincinnati Army Medical Board to be examined for a surgical position in the Volunteer Staff Corps is approved. This group of letters is transcribed and footnoted in Chapter 8 of I Hope to Do My Country Service.
Date Created:
1864-07-11T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
Collection:
I Hope to Do My Country Service: the Civil War letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry, part of collection with diaries published by Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2005.
Subject Topic:
Bennitt, John, United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 19th (1862-1865), Surgeons, Correspondence, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care, United States. Army. Corps, 20th, Georgia, and Michigan
Language:
eng
Rights:
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a>
URL:
https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/9630