Horace Porter
| Horace Porter | |
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| Born |
April 15, 1837 Huntingdon, Pennsylvania |
| Died | May 29, 1921 (aged 84) Manhattan, New York |
| Buried at | West Long Branch, New Jersey |
| Allegiance |
United States of America Union |
| Service/branch |
United States Army Union Army |
| Years of service | 1860–1873 |
| Rank |
 Colonel Brevet Brigadier General
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| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
Medal of Honor Legion of Honor |
| Relations | David R. Porter (father) |
| Other work | Author President of the Union League Club of New York Held several government posts |
Horace Porter (April 15, 1837 – May 29, 1921) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant and to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U.S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905.
Porter was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania on April 15, 1837, the son of David R. Porter, an ironmaster who later served as Governor of Pennsylvania. A first cousin, Andrew Porter, was a Mexican-American War veteran and Union Army brigadier general. Horace Porter was educated at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey (class of 1856) and Harvard University. He graduated from West Point July 1, 1860. Porter was commissioned a second lieutenant on April 22, 1861 and a first lieutenant on June 7, 1861.
Porter served in the Union Army in the American Civil War, reaching the grade of lieutenant colonel by the end of the war. During the war, he served as Chief of Ordnance in the Army of the Potomac, Department of the Ohio and the Army of the Cumberland. He was distinguished in the Battle of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, at the Battle of Chickamauga, the Battle of the Wilderness and the Second Battle of Ream's Station (New Market Heights). On June 26, 1902 or July 8, 1902, Porter received the Medal of Honor for the Battle of Chickamauga as detailed in the citation noted below. In the last year of the war, he served on the staff of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, later writing a lively memoir of the experience, Campaigning With Grant (1897).
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