John Bennitt to his wife [Letter 171]

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.

1864-08-07

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_JB171

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