John Bennitt to his wife [Letter 022]

Correspondence from John Bennitt of Centreville, Michigan to his wife Charlotte, July 7, 1862, from Port Huron after leaving Ann Arbor, Michigan where he was enrolled in classes in the Department of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Michigan. Bennitt considered setting up a medical practice prior to enlisting. This group of letters is transcribed and footnoted in Chapter 1 of I Hope to Do My Country Service.

1862-07-07

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

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.

RHC-43_JB022

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