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Four years of fighting : a volume of personal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull Run to the fall of Richmond

by Charles Carleton Coffin

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FOUR YEARS OF FIGHTING is Charles Coffin's engrossing account of his eyewitness experiences as an Army War Correspondent during the Civil War, from the first battle at Bull Run to the fall of Richmond. Coffin was in Savannah soon after its occupation by Sherman on his great 'March to the Sea'.

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Published: 2001
Genres: History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Tween
DDC/MDS: 973.78
LCC: E470 .C6

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