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Coffin, Charles Carleton

journalist, author, was born July 26, 1823, in Boscawen, N. H. He was a Boston journalist who became famous as the war correspondent of the Boston Journal during the civil war, over the signature Carleton. His writings, mainly though not exclusively for young people, include My Days and Nights on the Battlefield, a narrative of personal experience; Following the Flag; Winning his Way; Building the Nation; Old Times in the Colonies; The Boys of '76; The Story of Liberty; The Drumbeat of the Nation; Marching to Victory; Redeeming the Republic; Our New Way Round the World; and Daughters of the Revolution. He died March 2, 1896, in Brookline, Mass. a