WHEN FORMER Civil War Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter passed away in Morristown, New Jersey, on May 21, 1901, the city of Portsmouth, N.H., had received a $30,000 bequest to erect an equestrian monument in his honor. In 1902, the city established a committee to oversee the project and it contract…
IT WAS IN 1886 that Fitz John Porter finally found the peace he had sought.
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