Episode 9 is all about the election of 1864, in which only 25 states participated!
To the Letter is a podcast brought to you in collaboration with University Libraries and the eLearning and Emerging Technologies Department’s Digital Studio at GVSU. On this podcast, we bring correspondence from GVSU’s Special Collections alive. In each episode you will hear (in their own words!) letters written by the people who lived through history and the stories behind them. John Bennitt is voiced by Matt Ruen, Scholarly Communications Outreach Coordinator at University Libraries.
The letter featured in Episode 9 is available below:
Letter from John Bennitt to his wife Lottie, Dec. 27, 1863
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