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Porter, Albert Quincy (1825-1904) Musician, 33d
Mississippi Volunteers
Collection, 1864-1944. 3 items.
Transcripts.
Diary, Jan. 20-July 7, 1864, and Feb. 2-May 30, 1865,
kept by Porter during operations against Gen. William T. Sherman
in the Meridian, Atlanta, and Carolinas campaigns. Contains
comments on casualties, disease, hospital care, inflation,
discipline, desertions, depredations by both Union and Confederate
soldiers, stealing from Confederate supply depots, the
contribution of southern women to the war effort, and the displacement
of blacks. Also includes a few biographical notes on
Porter.
734
Porter, David Dixon (1813-1891) Adm., USN
Papers, 1790-1899. ca. 7,000 items.
Official and family correspondence, orders, reports, newspaper
clippings, memoirs, printed matter, and miscellaneous
items concerning the capture of New Orleans, La., the Vicksburg
Campaign, operations on the Mississippi and Red Rivers,
the Fort Fisher expeditions of 1864 and 1865, and the evacuation
and occupation of Richmond, Va. Also includes the report
of Lt. Col. Edward Higgins (CSA) on the mutiny of the garrisons
at Forts Jackson and St. Philip; a list of Confederate
steamers, gunboats, and rams on the Yazoo, Ouachita, Big
Black, and Red Rivers; a list of 41 men from Pine Bluff, Ark.,
who passed Confederate lines to serve the Union; and a detailed
report on Confederate fortifications at New Orleans with related
correspondence.
Finding aid available.
735
Porter, Fitz-John (1822-1901) Gen., USA
Papers, 1830-1949. ca. 13,100 items.
In part, transcripts.
Chiefly correspondence, orders, telegrams, reconnaissance
and battle reports, maps, photographs, financial and legal
papers, and printed material relating to Porter's commands in
the Peninsular, 2d Manassas, and Antietam campaigns, and to
his subsequent court-martial. Also contains information on the
situation in Texas in Apr. 1861, resignations by officers in the
Regular Army at the beginning of the war, efforts to protect
northern railroads, Gen. Robert Patterson's failure to prevent
reinforcements from reaching General Beauregard at the Battle
of 1st Manassas, and extracts from the diaries of Washing-
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