The Boys of '61 or Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy is a collection of extraordinary notes and personal experiences of Charl

Charles Carleton Coffin was an American journalist, Civil War correspondent, author and politician. Coffin was one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of

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