David Dixon Porter
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David Dixon Porter was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the
Porter in the 1860s, during the American Civil War
~ David Farragut ~ David Dixon Porter ~Issue of 1937
Perry and Porter attacked and took San Juan Bautista (now Villahermosa) in the Second Battle of Tabasco.
Porter, on the right, in 1860. The other officers are Sidney Smith Lee and Samuel F. Du Pont.
Fitz John Porter
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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 cou
David Dixon Porter
…the US Army; he was killed at Matamoros in the Mexican–American War. His uncle John Porter and his wife did not have as many children, but their son Fitz John Porter was a major general in the US Army at the time of the Civil War. Another son, Bolton Porter, was lost with his ship USS Levant in 1861. His aunt Anne…
Porter Between 1860 and 1870
Porter (seated in chair) and staff
a Statue of Porter in Haven Park, Portsmouth, New Hampshire