Charles Carleton Coffin

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Charles Carleton Coffin


Born
in Boscawen, New Hampshire, The United States
July 26, 1823

Died
March 02, 1896

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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
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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