Winning the Way

Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896), who also wrote under the penname Carleton, was the author of: 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... (1892) and Daughters of the Revolution and their Times 1769-1776 (1895). As 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.