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Charles Carleton Coffin

Born

in Boscawen, New Hampshire, The United States

July 26, 1823

Died

March 02, 1896

Genre

Journalism, History, Politics

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Charles Carleton Coffin was an American journalist, Civil War correspondent, author and politician.

Coffin was one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War. He has been called "the Ernie Pyle of his era," and a biographer, W.E. Griffis, referred to him as "a soldier of the pen and knight of the truth." Yet he remains little known to the present day generation.

A descendant of Tristam Coffin who arrived in the American colonies from England in 1642, Charles Carlton Coffin was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, on July 26, 1832. Growing up in rural New Hampshire he was home-schooled by his parents. Village life revolved around the church, and in his teens Charles went to work in a lumbering operation and with $60 from ...more

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	The Story of Liberty: So You Will Comprehend What Liberty Has Cost, ...and What It Is Worth 4.15 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 1987 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweet Land of Liberty: Old Times in the Colonies 3.99 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boys of '76: A History of the Battles of the Revolution 4.13 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1876 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field 3.67 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1887 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance 3.85 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1896 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1866 — 138 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eyewitness to Gettysburg: The Story of Gettysburg As Told by the Leading Correspondent of His Day (Thorndike Press Large Print American History Series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winning His Way 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Following the Flag From August 1861 to November 1862 by Charles Carleton Coffin really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old Times in the Colonies 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it.”
― Charles Carleton Coffin, The Story of Liberty: So You Will Comprehend What Liberty Has Cost, ...and What It Is Worth

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“For many years they plotted against the government,—threatening to destroy it if they could not have what they demanded. They looked with utter contempt upon the hard-working men of the North. They determined to rule or ruin.”
― Charles Carleton Coffin, My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field

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