Porter E. Whitney

(c. 1824 - )
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 61st New York Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
Enlisted at age 37 in Company C, 61st NY Infantry on 16 September 1861.

The remainder of the War:
Reenlisted in December 1863. Transferred to Company A and promoted Sergeant on 1 March 1864. Transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 15 April 1865.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from State of New York1. Mention of him on the Maryland Campaign in Fuller2.

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 25 (for 1900) [AotW citation 7664]

2 Fuller, Charles Augustus, Personal Recollections of the War of 1861... in the Sixty-first Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, Sherburne (NY): News Job Printing House, 1906, pp. 53 - 73 [AotW citation 7674]

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