General Horace Porter (1837-1921) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer, and staff officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was a personal secretary to both General and President Ulysses S. Grant and General William T. Sherman. Porter also served as US ambassador to France from 1897-1905 and is the author of Campaigning with Grant and West Point Life.
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Horace Porter served as lieutenant colonel on Ulysses S. Grant’s staff from April 1864 to the end of the Civil War. He accompanied Grant into battle in the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg campaigns, and was present at Lee’s surrender a... SEE MORE