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Charles Carleton Coffin (1823–1896)
Coffin, Charles Carleton. An American novelist and lecturer; born in Boscawen, NH, July 26, 1823; died in Brookline, MA, March 2, 1896. In 1851 he began to write for the Boston papers; and during the Civil War and the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 was war correspondent for the Boston Journal, writing over the signature of “Carleton.” His books include: ‘Days and Nights on the Battle-Field’ (1864); ‘Our New Way Round the World’ (1869); ‘Story of Liberty’ (1878); ‘Life of Garfield’ (1883); and ‘The Drum-Beat of the Nation’ (1887), the first volumes of a series.