About Horace Porter

Horace C. Porter was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant. He also was secretary to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U.S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905.

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Horace Porter

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general (1837-1921)

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military officer, diplomat, writer

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United States Ambassador to France

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United States

Born

April 15, 1837

Died

May 29, 1921

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