George Matthews Coffin, Jr.

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George Mathewes Coffin

• Coffin graduated from the Citadel in 1864 at the head of his class. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Confederate army and took part in several skirmishes near this city and Columbia. Among positions he has held are vice president of the Phoenix National and the Chatham-Phoenix National banks, and New York, and Received of the First National bank, Putnam Connecticut, and the Woonsocket, Rhode Island bank. In 1933 the Confederate veteran retired, returning to Charleston in February of 1934. As one of the boy soldiers of the Confederacy, Coffin at the age of seventeen led a detachment of youthful troops out of Columbia four hours before the arrival of General William t. Sherman.