Excerpts from the Book 'Charles Carleton Coffin':

... Coffin was born, July 15. When the news of Stark's victory at Bennington came, the call was for every able-bodied man to turn out, in order to defeat ...
... was, not having a thermometer. My father purchased one about 1838. I think there was one earlier in the town. The Sunday noons were spent around ...
... idol of the hour was General Winfield Scott, of an imposing personal appearance which was set off by a showy uniform. He was the hero of the two ...
... author of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America intimated that truth, accurately told and published throughout the North, was not only extremely ...
... around which was a belt, to which hung a spy-glass. Later in the war he bought a fine binocular marine glass. He gave the old historic spy-glass ...
... of the Potomac, discipline was much more severe in the East, while real democracy was much more general in the West. Men seemed less proud of their ...
... fires, long pent, have suddenly found vent.. There she is, the Weehawken, the target of probably two hundred and fifty or three hundred guns, at ...
... had been on the rail or in the saddle. He was now to spend sleepless nights and laborious days that were to tax his physical resources to their utmost. With ...
... and nephew, had often, while out collecting news, to scud from cover to cover, and amid the zip, zip of bullets. Dangerous as the service was, there ...
... helping to carry the men on the cars. Volunteering as a nurse, where nurses were most needed, though at first refused by the surgeons, he got on board ...
... review of the Prussian army in welcome to the Czar. He studied the battle-fields of Leipsig and Lutzen, and the ever continuing gamblers' war at ...
... It may be safely said that only a handful of students, who had made themselves familiar with the ancient native records, and with that remarkable body ...
... knowing of the future seat of America empire. He accepted with pleasure a commission to explore the promising regions of Minnesota and Dakota, and to ...
... give such enormous space to kings, queens and ecclesiastical and military figureheads, almost to the extent (in the eye of the philosophic student, ...
... Poet's Tale, Lady Wentworth, and other poems, Carleton, before retiring, wrote a Sequel to Lady Wentworth. It is full of drollery, suggesting also ...
... free churchman. He was not only so by inheritance and environment, but because he was master of the New Testament. His perating acumen and power ...
... authority on earth, were not made up wholly of one sex. He quoted from that pamphlet, De Jure Regni, published by George Buchanan in 1556, which was ...
... United States must be incredible. Even Carleton had not then informed himself concerning that great field of blood extending from ocean to ocean, and ...
... the red coats, and herein Carleton saw visions and dreamed dreams, which his pen, like the camera which chains the light, was to photograph in words. ...
... of the organ, but it soon melted into In Memoriam and hymns of triumph. The quartet sang Jesus Reigns, a favorite hymn of Carleton's, to music which ...