Eyewitness to Gettysburg: The Story of Gettysburg As Told by the Leading Correspondent of His Day

by Charles Carleton Coffin, John W. Schildt (Introduction)

Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896) was an American war correspondent for the Boston Journal whose detailed, graphic accounts of the major battles of the Civil War offer an important glimpse into life and death at the battlefront. Includes a biographical essay on Coffin and appendices placing his accounts in context. B&w illustrations, maps. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Genres: Civil War

131 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

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 his earnings, he purchased an organ which he gave to the church, and became the first organist.


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Since just being there......INCREDIBLE!