Charles Carleton Coffin

Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times, 1769-1776 (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Charles Carleton Coffin Illustrated, Ill edition

Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896), who also wrote under the penname Carleton, was 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. His works include: 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, With the Army of the Potomac (1892) and Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times, 1769-1776 (1895).