LEADER 04065nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910963532203321 005 20251117091104.0 010 $a0-8143-3734-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048089 035 $a(EBL)3416400 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565181 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11350935 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565181 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10532511 035 $a(PQKB)11357297 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3416400 035 $a(OCoLC)755623739 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15894 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3416400 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10499906 035 $a(OCoLC)923510298 035 $a(BIP)37166046 035 $a(BIP)9396641 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048089 100 $a20040511d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a"I hope to do my country service" $ethe Civil War letters of John Bennitt, M.D., surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry /$fedited by Robert Beasecker ; with a foreword by William M. Anderson 210 $aDetroit $cWayne State University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (439 pages) 225 1 $aGreat Lakes books 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8143-3170-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 391-394) and index. 327 $aAm Not Very Anxious to Go into the Army -- Am Near the Land of Dixie -- Our Regiment Is Completely Destroyed -- Am Beginning to Like the Service -- We Are Here among Secessionists -- Poor Rebels! Poor Rebeldom!! -- We Expect to Be Soldiers in Earnest Now -- The Rebels Mean to Make an Obstinate Resistance Here -- 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. 330 $aIn 1862 at the age of thirty-two, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than two hundred letters home to his wife and daughters sharing his careful and detailed observations of army life, his medical trials in the field and army hospitals, dramatic battles, and character sketches of the many people he encountered, including his regimental comrades, captured Confederates, and local citizens in southern towns. Bennitt writes about the war's progress on both the battlefield and the home front, and also reveals his changing view of slavery and race. Bennitt traces the history of the 19th Michigan Infantry, from its mustering in Dowagiac in August 1862, its duty in Kentucky and Tennessee, its capture and imprisonment by Confederate forces, its subsequent exchange and reorganization, its participation in the Atlanta and the Carolinas campaigns, its place in the Grand Review in Washington, and the final mustering out in Detroit in June 1865. John Bennitt's significant collection of letters sheds light not only on the Civil War but on the many aspects of life in a small Michigan town. Although a number of memoirs from Civil War surgeons have been published in the last decade, "I Hope to Do My Country Service" is the first of its kind from a Michigan regimental surgeon to appear in more than a century. 410 0$aGreat Lakes books. 606 $aPhysicians$zUnited States$vCorrespondence 607 $aMichigan$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vPersonal narratives 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vPersonal narratives 607 $aCentreville (Mich.)$vBiography 615 0$aPhysicians 676 $a973.7/75/092 676 $aB 700 $aBennitt$b John$01869622 701 $aBeasecker$b Robert$f1946-$01869623 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963532203321 996 $a"I hope to do my country service"$94477824 997 $aUNINA