John Bennitt to his wife [Letter 088]
Correspondence from John Bennitt of Centreville, Michigan to his wife Charlotte, August 13 and 14, 1863. During this time, Bennitt leaves Nashville, Tennessee to rejoin Rosecrans_s Army of the Cumberland as it begins the Tullahome campaign against Bragg_s Confederates. Bennitt is promoted to regiment surgeon and is stationed in Murfreesboro. He reports on camp life, condition of patients, and local and national news. This group of letters is transcribed and footnoted in Chapter 4 of I Hope to Do My Country Service.
1863-08-13
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_JB088
eng
Bennitt, John, “John Bennitt to his wife [Letter 088],” Digital Collections, accessed November 7, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/9553.