Raynors HCA 2018-06
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Fitz John Porter (1822-1901) (sometimes written FitzJohn Porter or Fitz-John Porter) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War. He is most known for his performance at the Second Battle of Bull Run and his subsequent court martial. Autograph Letter Signed, “Fitz John Porter”, Washington DC, March 4, 1880, 1pp., VG. In full, “Too the best i can to comply with your wisshes and of not satisfactory, where I now younger I with try my hand at it again. Yours respectfully.” In 1878, a special commission under General John Schofield exonerated Porter by finding that his reluctance to attack Longstreet probably saved Pope's Army of Virginia from an even greater defeat. Eight years later, President Grover Cleveland commuted Porter's sentence and a special act of the U.S. Congress restored Porter's commission as an infantry colonel in the U.S. Army, backdated to May 14, 1861, but without any back pay due. Two days later, August 7, 1886, Porter, seeing vindication, voluntarily retired from the Army.
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