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PORTER , FITZ-See also:JOHN (1822-1901), See also:American soldier, was See also:born at See also:Portsmouth, New See also:Hampshire, on the 31st of See also:August 1822. He was the son of a See also:naval officer, and See also:nephew of See also:David Porter of the See also:frigate " See also:Essex." He graduated at the See also:United States Military See also:Academy in 1845 and was assigned to the See also:artillery. In the Mexican See also:War he won two brevets for gallantry—that of See also:captain for Molino del Rey and that of See also:major for Chapultepec. He served at See also:West Point as instructor and See also:adjutant (1849-1855), and he took See also:part in the See also:Utah expedition. At the outbreak of the See also:Civil War in 1861 he was employed on See also:staff duties in the eastern states, and rendered See also:great assistance in the organization of Pennsylvanian See also:volunteers. In the See also:absence of higher authority Porter sanctioned on his own responsibility the See also:request of See also:Missouri Unionists for permission to raise troops, a step which had an important See also:influence upon the struggle for the See also:possession of the See also:state. He became See also:colonel of a new See also:regiment of regulars on the 14th of May, and soon afterwards brigadier-See also:general of volunteers. Under McClellan he commanded a See also:division of See also:infantry in the See also:Peninsular See also:campaign, and directed the See also:Union See also:siege operations against See also:Yorktown, and he was soon afterwards placed in command of the V. See also:army See also:corps. When the Seven Days' See also:battle (q.v.) began Porter's corps had to sustain alone the full See also:weight of the Confederate attack, and though defeated in the desperately fought battle of Gaines's See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill (See also:June 27, 1862) the steadiness of his See also:defence was so conspicuous that he was immediatelypromoted major-general of volunteers and See also:brevet brigadier-general U.S.A. His corps, moreover, had the greatest See also:share in the successful battles of Glendale and See also:Malvern See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill. Soon after-wards, with other See also:units of the Army of the See also:Potomac, the V. corps was sent to reinforce See also:Pope in central See also:Virginia. Its inaction on the first See also:day of the disastrous second battle of See also:Bull Run (q.v.) led to the general's subsequent disgrace; but it made a splendid fight on the second day to See also:save the army from See also:complete rout, and subsequently shared in the See also:Antietam campaign. On the same day on which McClellan was relieved from his command, Porter, his warm friend and supporter, was suspended. A few days later he was tried by See also:court-See also:martial on charges brought against him by Pope, and on the 21st of See also:January 1863 was sentenced to be cashiered " and for ever disqualified from holding any See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:trust under the See also:government of the United States." After many years Porter's See also:friends succeeded (1878) in procuring a revision of the See also:case by a See also:board of distinguished general See also:officers. This board reported strongly in Porter's favour, but at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the remission of the disqualifying See also:penalty was all that was obtained in the way of redress. General See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant had now taken Porter's part, and wrote an See also:article in vol. 135 of the See also:North American See also:Review entitled " An Undeserved Stigma." Against much opposition, partly See also:political (1879-1886) andavetoon a legal point from See also:President See also:Arthur, a See also:relief See also:bill finally passed See also:Congress, and Porter was on the 5th of August 1886 restored to the United States army as colonel and placed on the retired See also:list, no See also:provision, however, being made for See also:compensation. After the Civil War General Porter was engaged in business in New See also:York, and later held successively many important municipal offices. In 1869 he declined the offer made by the See also:khedive of the See also:chief command of the See also:Egyptian army. He died on the 21st of May Igor, at See also:Morristown, New See also:Jersey.
See, besides General Grant's article, See also:Cox, The Second Battle of Bull Run as connected with the Porter Case (See also:Cincinnati, 1882); See also:Lord, A See also:Summary of the Case of F. J. Porter (1883), and papers in vol. ii. of the publications of the Military See also:Historical Society of See also:Massachusetts.
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