"I Hope to Do My Country Service": The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry

Book Overview

A revealing firsthand account of the Civil War as told through the letters of a Michigan regimental surgeon.

In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters sharing his careful and detailed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081433170X
• ISBN13: 9780814331705
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.5" x 10.3"