Medal of Honor Action Place: Chickamauga, Georgia, USA
Citation
While acting as a volunteer aide, at a critical moment when the lines were broken, rallied enough fugitives to hold the ground under heavy fire long enough to effect the escape of wagon trains and batteries.
Medal of Honor Recipient Horace Porter
Additional Details
Accredited to: Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Awarded Posthumously: No
Presentation Date & Details: July 8, 1902
Born: April 15, 1837, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA, United States
Died: May 29, 1921, New York, NY, United States
Buried: West Branch Cemetery (C-44), West Branch, NJ, United States
Location of Medal:
Special Collections, Georgetown University Libraries, Washington, DC