Military Records:  Tillet Porter, 1931, Winn Parish, La.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483

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From:  September 10, 1931 Winn Parish Enterprise

Mr. Tillet Porter (James Tillet Porter), who will be 89 years old this
November, made his first visit back to the scene of his days in the Civil War,
when he visited Vicksburg, Mississippi, last week end.  Mr. Porter made the
trip to Vicksburg with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Durham and family and Callie Porter. 
It required only three days to make the trip there and back and to see all the
sites of the surrounding country.  Back in 1863 when Mr. Porter made the trip
it required a whole week to go.  The trip was then made by horseback.  The
trip last weekend was by motor and was made almost entirely on pavement.

Mr. Porter said there were many things that looked natural to him.  He
recognized the place where the old gun boat sunk.  While he was there in 1863,
Grand had a canal cut to turn the Mississippi River.  Now a large traffic
bridge and a railroad bridge span the river.

Mr. Porter visited the National Cemetery and a large part of the surrounding
country.  When he was there 68 years ago he was a member of the 12th Louisiana
Regiment.  There were 135 men in his company and not one of them is left
besides himself as far as he knows.  Mr. Porter is still very spry and can see
to walk wherever he wants to go.