| LC control no. | n 2012019744 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Coffin, Amory, 1841-1916 |
| Associated country | U.S. |
| Located | Aiken, S.C. |
| Birth date | 18410809 |
| Death date | 19160605 |
| Place of birth | S.C. |
| Place of death | Aiken, S.C. |
| Field of activity | Medicine |
| Affiliation | Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina Confederate States of America. Army |
| Profession or occupation | Soldiers |
| Found in | NUCMC data from The Citadel Archives & Museum for His Typescript, 1911 (hdg.: Coffin, Amory, 1841-1916; Citadel graduate, 1862; describes firing on Star of the West and the Battle of Fort Sumter. One of his assignments as a cadet was to drill a company of Coast Guards on Mt. Pleasant on Fridays. During the Battle of Fort Sumter, he watched with Col. John Branch from an observatory tower on Sullivan's Island) Find a Grave website, viewed Mar. 23, 2012 (Lieut Amory Coffin, Jr.; Birth: Aug. 9, 1841 Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina; Death: June 5, 1916, Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; Adjutant, Battalion of State Cadets (The Citadel), South Carolina, Confederate States Army. Graduated from the Citadel, 1862. Enlisted in Co. B, Captain Edward L. Parker's South Carolina Light Artillery (Marion), April 28, 1862 (mustered in, June 6, 1862, as a Private. According to his obituary, as a Cadet at the Citadel, "Mr. Coffin was in command of the squad which fired what was practically the first gun of the Civil War, an alarm gun to notify the batteries around Charleston that the US Steamer Star of the West had been sighted up the coast bound for the relief of Fort Sumter.") |
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