John Bennitt to his wife [Letter 171]

Description:

Correspondence from John Bennitt of Centreville, Michigan to his wife Charlotte, August 7, 8 and 9, 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.

Institution: Grand Valley State 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.

Rights: No Copyright - United States

Subject Topics:

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,

Michigan

Language: eng

URL: https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/9635

Type: text