Charles Carleton Coffin followed the Union forces as a newspaper correspondent from the defences of Washington and the rout at Bull Run through the campaigns in Kentucky and the West and on to the war’s end. He sets down what he saw on battlefields and gunboats, mixing his own observations with official reports, and frames the conflict frankly as one between slavery and freedom.
Firsthand Civil War reporting by one of the North’s best-known correspondents, useful for anyone following the campaigns as they looked at the time. Download the free EPUB.