COFFIN, Charles Carleton.
Drum-Beat of the Nation: The First Period of The War of the Rebellion from its Outbreak to the Close of 1862.
New York: Harper & Brothers , 1888.
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First edition of Charles Carleton Coffin's Drum-Beat of the Nation
First edition of Coffin's Civil War account, which contains a long description of the Battle of Gettysburg. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, tissue-guarded frontispiece. In very good condition.
Charles Carleton Coffin was one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War. Coffin was present at the Battle of Bull Run, and his written accounts of the battle and its aftermath so impressed the editors of his old paper, the Boston Journal, that the paper hired him to "cover the war" at a salary of $25 per week. He worked alone, without assistants, and was frequently the first to get reports from the war's battlefields to the media. After the war, he published My Days and Nights on the Battlefield (1864), Following the Flag and Four Years of Fighting, both published in 1865. Between 1888 and 1891 he also published Drumbeat of the Nation, Marching to Victory (which contained a long account of the Battle of Gettysburg), and Redeeming the Republic.
Drum-Beat of the Nation: The First Period of The War of the Rebellion from its Outbreak to the Close of 1862.
$150.00
Out of Stock
