Charles Carleton Coffin, the Civil War correspondent for the Boston Journal, was in Frederick on Sunday, June 28, 1863 as General George Gordon Meade assumed command of the Army of the Potomac. On Monday, he rode with the officers and men of the Union Fifth Corps on the roads to Gettysburg. Coffin, the Ernie Pyle of his day, had a unique manner of detailing the events of battle and human emotion, while intertwining the sounds and sights around him...