Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios -  Fitz John Porter

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                                   PORTER
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   PORTER, FITZ JOHN, was a man not wanting in large abilities. At the
   outbreak of the war he was thirty-nine years old. He had been
   graduated at West Point in 1845, and was a participant in the Mexican
   War. In the Peninsular campaign his military talents shown
   conspicuously. He was in command at Yorktown, Mechanicsville, Gaines's
   Mill, and Malvern Hill. At the second battle of Bull Run he lay with
   his corps not far away, and was odered by Pope to press forward to the
   field. This he did not do, and for his failure he was courtmartialed
   and cashiered. Subsequent investigation showed the injustice of his
   sentence; but for a long time the prejudice against him was extreme.
   For nearly twenty years he lay under the cloud, and his restoration in
   the years 1882 and 1886 were not complete and full.