Published the Government Printing Office, 1862. Owner book stamp, front eps: “Capt. R.G. Porter, U.S.A.” 57 pp., wraps. In card cover w/ black buckram spine. Exhibits slight wear. Else very slight cover wear. Else near fine.

Three R.G. Porters turn up in the Union Army on civilwardata.com.  One was a hospital steward, another a private in a militia unit who was discharged after a month’s service.  That leaves our most likely subject, Reuben Griffiths Porter.  Porter enlisted on 7/16/62 as a Captain and was commissioned into the US Volunteers Commissary Dept. Promoted to Major by Brevet on 7/14/65; mustered out on 7/15/65. Porter died in 1909 in Winslow, Camden County, NJ, and is buried in Waterford Episcopal Cemetery in Waterford Works, Camden County, NJ.  [jp/ld]

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