Charles Carleton Coffin

Charles Carleton Coffin
Born(1823-07-26)July 26, 1823
Boscawen, New Hampshire[1][2]
DiedMarch 2, 1896(1896-03-02) (aged 72)
Brookline, Massachusetts[3]
Alma materPembroke Academy
SpouseSallie R. Farmer[4] (m. February 18, 1846).
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Charles Carleton Coffin (July 26, 1823 – March 2, 1896) was an American journalist, 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."

  1. ^ Griffis, William Elliot (1898), Charles Carleton Coffin, war correspondent, traveller, author, and statesman, Boston, Estes and Lauriat, p. 23
  2. ^ Clarke, James W. (1885), The Bay State Monthly: A Massachusetts Magazine, vol. III, Boston, Massachusetts: Bay State Monthly Company, p. 2
  3. ^ Clarke, James W. (1885), The Granite State Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to Literature, History, Biography and State Progress Vol. III No. 1, Boston, Massachusetts: Bay State Monthly Company, p. 276
  4. ^ Clarke, James W. (1896), The Bay State Monthly: A Massachusetts Magazine of Literature, History, Biography and State Progress Vol. XX, Concord, NH: Granite Monthly Company, p. 3