John Bennitt to his wife [Letter 036]
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John Bennitt to his wife [Letter 036]
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Correspondence from John Bennitt to his wife Charlotte, November 9, 1862. During this time, Bennitt enlists as an assistant surgeon in the 19th Michigan Infantry. Bennitt_s regiment moves from Dowagiac, Michigan to Cincinnati, where it joins General Granger_s Army of Kentucky at Covington. Bennitt describes their march to Lexington and Nicholasville. During this time in Kentucky, Bennitt is placed in charge of the divisional hospital. Their Centreville home is lost through forclosure and his family moves to Three Rivers, Michigan to stay with friends. This group of letters is transcribed and footnoted in Chapter 2 of I Hope to Do My Country Service.
Date
1862-11-09
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
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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.
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RHC-43_JB036
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eng
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Bennitt, John, “John Bennitt to his wife [Letter 036],” Digital Collections, accessed November 23, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/9503.