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Charles Carleton Coffin was born on July 26, 1823, in Boscawen, New Hampshire, United States. He was the son of Thomas Coffin and Hannah Kilburn and grew up on a farm.
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Charles Carleton Coffin was born on July 26, 1823, in Boscawen, New Hampshire, United States. He was the son of Thomas Coffin and Hannah Kilburn and grew up on a farm.
Coffin had only the education of village school and academy.
Coffin worked at farming and surveying for a time. In 1852, in association with his brother-in-law, Moses Gerrish Farmer he installed in Boston the first electric fire-alarm system. He had already tried his hand at writing, and in 1853 definitely took up newspaper work, serving as assistant editor of the Boston Allas, 1856-1857, and as correspondent of the Boston Journal in the Middle West in 1854.
He was in Washington at the outbreak of war, made his first great success by his eye-witness account of Bull Run, and from then until the close of the war was almost constantly at the front, with Grant in the West from December 1861 to June 1862, with the ironclads off Charleston in April 1863, and with the Army of the Potomac in almost all the important engagements from the Wilderness to the fall of Richmond. More than once, as at the capture of Fort Donelson, at Gettysburg, and at the occupation of Charleston, his telegraphic dispatches to the Journal gave the first definite news.
“Carleton” exploited his war experience in many volumes: My Days and Nights on the Battlefield (1864), Following the Flag (1865), Four Years of Fighting (1866) and a series entitled Drumbeat of the Nation, Marching to Victory, Redeeming the Republic, Freedom Triumphant (1888 - 1891). He was in Europe for sixteen months, 1866-1867, and thence went eastward through India, China, and Japan to San Francisco and thus home, describing his journey in Our New Way Round the World (1869). A popular book, The Seat of Empire (1870) was the outcome of a subsequent tour in the West.
Turning to books for youth, Coffin employed his vigorous, graphic style and familiarity with New England life in The Boys of ’76 (1876), The Story of Liberty (1879) and others. His children’s books, especially The Boys of ’76, had a tremendous and deserved popularity; several have been reissued in recent years. From Boston he was elected to the Assembly, 1884-1885, and to the state Senate, 1890. In February 1896 friends gathered in his newly built home in Brookline to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his happy though childless marriage. His death from apoplexy came a fortnight later.
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Coffin was a devoted worker in the Shawmut Congregational Church, Boston.
Coffin was a genial and warm-hearted. He was a nearly six feet in height, an abstainer from liquor and tobacco, with handsome, open face, and a reputation for courage and absolute trustworthiness. He had a host of distinguished friends, and was in great demand as a popular lecturer, giving in his lifetime some 2, 000 public addresses.
Quotes from others about the person
“He was the cheekiest man on earth for the sake of the Journal and the people of New England. . .. He would talk to the commander as no civilian could or would and Grant always welcomed it. ”
Coffin married Sallie Russell Farmer on February 18, 1846.
