Charles Carleton Coffin (1823 - 1896)

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."