Eyewitness to Gettysburg (Thorndike American History)

Charles Carleton Coffin, the Civil War correspondent for the Boston Journal, was in Frederick on Sunday, June 28, 1863 as General George Gordon Meade assumed command of the Army of the Potomac. On Monday, he rode with the officers and men of the Union Fifth Corps on the roads to Gettysburg. Coffin, the Ernie Pyle of his day, had a unique manner of detailing the events of battle and human emotion, while intertwining the sounds and sights around him. Civil War historian John W. Schildt introduces this eyewitness account of the battle of Gettysburg by the man W.E.B Griffin called "a soldier of the pen and knight of the truth".Charles Carleton Coffin is the author of 'Eyewitness to Gettysburg (Thorndike American History)' with ISBN 9780783890883 and ISBN 0783890885.