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Horace Porter
Horace Porter (April 15, 1837May 29, 1921) 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 and to General William T. Sherman, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company and U.S. Ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905. In 1866, he was appointed to the brevet grade of brigadier general, United States Army.
==Early life and education==
Porter was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania on April 15, 1837,〔Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, ''Civil War High Commands.'' Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. pp. 435-436〕 the son of David R. Porter, an ironmaster who later served as Governor of Pennsylvania. A first cousin, Andrew Porter, was a Mexican-American War veteran and Union Army brigadier general.〔 Horace Porter was educated at The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey (class of 1856)〔Eicher, 2001, p. 435 identifies this as the Lawrence Scientific School.〕 and Harvard University. He graduated from West Point July 1, 1860.〔 Porter was commissioned a second lieutenant on April 22, 1861 and a first lieutenant on June 7, 1861.〔
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