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J.T. Porter

J.T. Porter

Federal (USV)

Private

John T. Porter

(1845 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted about two months before his 17th birthday in Company H, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry in August 1862.

After the War

By 1910 he was Secretary of the Regimental Association, and member of the history committee.

References & notes

Basic information and the picture here from Porter's own Regimental1.

Birth

1845

Notes

1   Porter, John T. , Financial Secretary, and Charles F. McKenna, compiler & editor, Under the Maltese Cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the Loyal Uprising in Western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865: Campaigns of the 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, Pittsburgh: 155th Regimental Association, 1910, pp. 472, 526, 619,   [AotW citation 13602]