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"I hope to do my country service" : the Civil War letters of John Bennitt, M.D., surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry /
"In 1862 at the age of thirty-two, physician John Bennitt of Centerville, Michigan, joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service until the end of the war. During this time, Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and da...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Great Lakes books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Editor�s Note
- 1 “I Am Not Very Anxious to Go into the Army�
- 2 “I Am Near the Land of �Dixie��
- 3 “Our Regiment Is Completely Destroyed�
- 4 “I Am Beginning to Like the Service�
- 5 “We Are Here among Secessionists�
- 6 “Poor Rebels!�Poor Rebeldom!!�
- 7 “We Expect to Be Soldiers in Earnest Now�
- 8 “The Rebels Mean to Make an Obstinate Resistance Here�
- 9 “A Glorious Future Awaits Our Country�
- APPENDIX A: “When Will My Dear Husband Come Home to Remain?�APPENDIX B: “Timely Aid Rendered�
- APPENDIX C: Calendar of Bennitt Letters
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
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- Q
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- S
- T
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