This carefully crafted ebook collection of Charles Coffin's works is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Seat of Empire The Story of Liberty Old Times in the Colonies My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times: 1769–1776 The Boys of '61 Following the Flag Winning His Way The Life of Charles Carleton Coffin
Charles Carleton Coffin (July 26, 1823 - March 2, 1896) was an American journalist, American 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.
Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896), who also wrote under the penname Carleton, was the author of: My Days and Nights on the Battlefield (1864), Winning His Way (1866), The Seat of Empire (1870), Caleb Krinkle (1875), The Boys of '76 (1876), Old Times in the Colonies (1880), The Boys of '61; or, Four Years of Fighting (1881), Building the Nation (1883), Following the Flag, from August, 1861 to November, 1862... (1892) and Daughters of the Revolution and their Times 1769-1776 (1895). As a civil engineer, he constructed the telegraphic time line between Harvard's Astronomical observatory and Boston's main railway station at the end of 1849. Throughout the American Civil war he was a reporter and army correspondent for the Boston Journal.
Many volumes have been written setting forth the patriotism and heroism of the fathers of the Republic, but the devotion of the mothers and daughters has received far less attention. This book is designed, therefore, to portray in some degree their influence in the struggle of the Colonies to attain their independence. The narration of events takes the form of a story—a slight thread of romance being employed, rather than didactic narrative, to more vividly picture the scenes and the parts performed by the actors in the great historic drama. It will not be difficult for the reader to discern between the facts of history and the imaginative parts of the story.
A famous American writer's view of the Civil War Charles Carleton Coffin is now recognised as one the important journalists, authors and polititicians of the American nation. At the time of the Civil War he was working for the Boston Journal and was already an experienced correspondent. Writing under the pen-name of 'Carleton' he witnessed virtually every campaign from the Battle of the Wilderness to the fall of Richmond. Prior to his journalistic career he worked as a civil engineer and regularly assisted the Federal military in the field in that capacity. In this book the reader benefits from a view of the Civil War as seen by an expert observer and translated into words by an accomplished wordsmith. This is a perfect book for those who enjoy journalism and Civil War history. Coffin takes the reader to the battle of Bull Run, action at Forts Henry and Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, operations at New Madrid and Island Number Ten culminating in the fighting around Memphis. A worthwhile addition to every library of the American Civil War.
Maranatha Publications has reprinted Charles Coffin's 1881 history of the founding of the United States with the desire to make the present generation aware of the role that the founding fathers attributed to Divine Providence.
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