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| Keywords: Horace Porter - Brady-Handy.jpg Gen Horace Porter U S A Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Brady-Handy Photograph Collection http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cwpbh 00589 CALL NUMBER LC-BH83- 2237 <P P>P P between 1860 1875 Mathew Brady or Levin Handy PD LOC-image cwpbh 00589 Horace Porter 1837-1921 American soldier and diplomat was born in Huntingdon the son of David R Porter a wealthy ironmater who later served as Governor of Pennsylvania He was educated at Harvard University He graduated from West Point in 1860 and served in the Union army in the American Civil War reaching the rank of brigadier general He received the Medal of Honor at the Battle of Chickamauga In the last year of the war he served on the staff of Gen Ulysses S Grant writing a lively memoir of the experience Campaigning With Grant 1897 This summary was created using Commons SumItUp PD-old DEFAULTSORT Porter Horace Black and white portrait photographs of military people in uniform American Civil War photographs by Mathew Brady Horace Porter | ||||
