Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I hopukina ia i Kentucky, a, i noho ia i te whare herehere o Libby i mua i tana whakawhiti. I muri mai, ka whawhai tahi a Coburn me Colonel Benjamin Harrison i roto i nga pakanga maha i raro i te whakahau a General William Tecumseh Sherman. I taua wā, ko Coburn me ana ope te tuatahi ki
Ko Atlanta me te whakarite i te whakarerenga o te taone. He tohu nui kei te pokapū o Atlanta i reira te koromatua o te taone i tuku ai i te taone ki a Coburn. I whakauruhia ia i te Mahuru 20, 1864.