Charles Carleton Coffin
Charles Carleton Coffin (July 26, 1823 – March 2, 1896) was an American journalist, war correspondent, author and politician.
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| Born | July 26, 1823 Boscawen, New Hampshire |
| Died | March 2, 1896 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | Pembroke Academy |
| Spouse | Sallie R. Farmer (m. February 18, 1846). |
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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."
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