Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
Biography
Charles Carleton Coffin, 1823-1896, was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire. He became a surveyor, a telegraph and railroad expert and a reporter. During the Civil War, he wrote dispatches from the front for the Boston Journal by which he attained considerable fame. He served in the Massachusetts House in 1884 and 1885 and the Senate in 1890, but he was best known as an author of patriotic books for children and for his speeches. He was a board member of NEHGS and gave the oration at its fiftieth anniversary in 1895.
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Charles Carleton Coffin papers
Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896) was a reporter for the Boston Journal during the Civil War and author of patriotic books. He is said to have delivered more than two thousand speeches and addresses on patriotic and religious subjects.
Collection contains thirty-seven addresses on patriotic subjects and Confederate material collected during his career as a war correspondent during the Civil War