Home Bennitt_Front cover v.1

Reference URL

To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed the entire object, paste this HTML in website

To link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this page, paste this HTML in website

John Bennitt Civil War Diary, 1863-1864

Bennitt_Front cover v.1

1 of 26

View Description

View Image & Text

Image
Text

Text Search...

Loading content ...

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Title	John Bennitt Civil War Diary, 1863-1864
Creator	Bennitt, John 1830-1892
Description	This diary is one of three kept by physician John Bennitt of Centreville, Michigan describing his experience as a Civil War surgeon for the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment. The first volume (Sept. 1, 1863-Jan. 26, 1864) details Bennitt's stay at camps in Murfreesboro and as head of the General Hospital in McMinnville, Tennessee. The volume focuses on medical conditions treated, medicines prescribed, surgery performed (including amputations), and the progress of patients. Other entries describe his daily routine, living conditions, weather, correspondence, attendance at bible class, and occasional war news. The last pages of the volume includes an account of letters written and received with names of correspondents and dates.
Date	1863-1864
Subject - LCA	Bennitt, John, 1830-1892 United States. Army. Michigan Infantry Regiment, 19th (1862-1865)--Surgeons Surgeons--Michigan--Diaries United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care Diaries
Geographic Terms	Michigan; Murfreesboro (Tenn.); McMinnville (Tenn.); Wartrace (Tenn.); Tennessee
Source	Civil War & Slavery Collection, John Bennitt Papers, 1861-1865, Diary v. 1 of 3
Relation	Part of collection of papers with correspondence published by Wayne State University Press, Detroit as I Hope to Do My Country Service; the Civil War letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry.
Rights	For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Grand Valley State University Special Collections at collections@gvsu.edu
Type	text
Format	text/jp2
Identifier	Bennitt 1863
Local collection	Abraham Lincoln, Civil War and Slavery

Title	Bennitt_Front cover v.1
Rights	For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Grand Valley State University Special Collections at collections@gvsu.edu
Publisher	Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Transcript	[Front cover]
Local collection	Abraham Lincoln, Civil War and Slavery

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Home Bennitt_Front cover v.1

John Bennitt Civil War Diary, 1863-1864

Object Description

Description

John Bennitt Civil War Diary, 1863-1864

John Bennitt Civil War Diary, 1863-1864

	All
	Pages Enter page numbers or page ranges separated by commas. For example: 1,3,5-12