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Charles Carleton Coffin

American journalist and war correspondent

Died when: 72 years 220 days (871 months)
Star Sign: Leo

 

Charles Carleton Coffin

Charles Carleton Coffin (July 26, 1823 – March 2, 1896) was an American journalist, 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."


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