John Bennitt to his wife [Letter 160]

Correspondence from surgeon John Bennitt of Centreville, Michigan to his wife Charlotte, June 22, 1864. During this time, Bennitt_s regiment is ordered south toward Chattanooga to join other Union regiments for what will become General Sherman_s Atlanta campaign. The 19th Michigan is assigned to the 20th Army Corps under General Hooker and sees action in Georgia. Bennitt is assigned to the Corps, Brigade, and Division hospitals. This group of letters is transcribed and footnoted in Chapter 7 of I Hope to Do My Country Service.

1864-06-22

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.

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