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    court-martial of Fitz John Porter (November 25, 1862 – January 22, 1863) was a major event of the American Civil War. Major General Fitz John Porter was...
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    Fitz John Porter (August 31, 1822 – May 21, 1901) (sometimes written FitzJohn Porter or Fitz-John Porter) was a career United States Army officer and a...
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    Civil War portal Biography portal List of American Civil War generals (Union) The Court-martial of Fitz John Porter Frederiksen, pp. 1541–43. Eicher, pp...
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    Alfred Terry (category People of the Great Sioux War of 1876)
    Gen. John Schofield on a presidential board asked to reexamine the conviction by court-martial of Fitz John Porter. The board found that Porter had been...
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    he served on the court-martial of Fitz John Porter for his tardiness at the Second Battle of Bull Run. He was convinced of Porter's guilt and voted with...
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    James B. Ricketts (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
    his horse fell on him. While recuperating, he served on the Fitz John Porter court-martial, a highly political case, where his loyalties are believed to...
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  • After Antietam, Fitz-John Porter was court martialed for disobeying orders at Second Bull Run. Although Porter himself was not to blame, John Pope chose him...
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    Reverdy Johnson (category St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni)
    Sandford of the Dred Scott case, Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter at his courts-martial, and Mary Surratt, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Abraham...
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    George W. Morell (category People of New York (state) in the American Civil War)
    most of this period. His close association with Brig. Gen. Fitz John Porter, his corps commander, negatively affected his career prospects, as Porter was...
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    December 1862, he sat on the court-martial that convicted Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter of disobedience and misconduct. When the Civil War ended in 1865, Slough...
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    Division: BG John Sedgwick and Blenker's Division: Louis Blenker.), BG Samuel P. Heintzelman (III Corps; Porter's Division: BG Fitz John Porter, Hooker's...
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    Napoleon Bonaparte Buford (category People of Illinois in the American Civil War)
    siege and Battle of Corinth. In the final days of 1862, he served on the court-martial that convicted Major General Fitz John Porter of cowardice and disobedience...
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    Irvin McDowell (category American military personnel of the Mexican–American War)
    escaped culpability by testifying against Major General Fitz John Porter, whom Pope court-martialed for alleged insubordination in that battle. Pope and...
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    convictions of 337 people. Among them is: Fitz John Porter – former Army officer court-martialed in 1863 for his actions at the Second Battle of Bull Run;...
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  • Robert Clerk (category British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
    of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers from 1660 to 1898, ed. R. F. Edwards (Chatham, England, 1898). The Proceedings of a General Court-Martial...
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    Thomas C. H. Smith (category People of Ohio in the American Civil War)
    the court-martial of General Fitz John Porter. He was promoted to colonel January 1, 1863, and honorably discharged April 27, 1863, by reason of appointment...
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    during the action, disagreed with Porter's accusations and instead lauded Maley for his bravery. Threats of court-martial were made against Maley, but no...
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    November 25, Fitz John Porter was arrested and court-martialed for his actions on August 29. Porter was found guilty on January 10, 1863, of disobedience...
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    Ethan A. Hitchcock (general) (category Commandants of the Corps of Cadets of the United States Military Academy)
    of his responsibilities as general-in-chief, and Halleck had not yet replaced him.) Hitchcock sat on the court-martial of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter,...
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    Benjamin S. Roberts (category People of Vermont in the American Civil War)
    misconduct against Fitz John Porter, and testified at the subsequent court-martial, which ruined Porter's career. After Porter's court-martial, Roberts was briefly...
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    Asa Bird Gardiner (category Purged Medal of Honor recipients)
    and the court-martial adjourned; Babcock was later acquitted. In 1878, a commission reviewed the court-martial of Major General Fitz John Porter, who had...
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    beautiful damsel of the court". Muriel St Clair Byrne, editor of the Lisle Letters, believes that this was a false pregnancy too. Porter 2007, p. 337 The...
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    Joseph Holt (category United States secretaries of war)
    prosecuted the court-martial against Major General Fitz John Porter for crimes of disobedience of a lawful order and misbehavior in front of the enemy. Lincoln...
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    Schofield drew the ire of Radical Republicans when President Rutherford B. Hayes asked him to reopen the case of Major General Fitz John Porter, who had been convicted...
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    Canada (redirect from Etymology of Canada)
    Here Since The World Began. Key Porter Books. p. 244. ISBN 978-1-55263-633-6. Preston, David L. (2009). The Texture of Contact: European and Indian Settler...
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    feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy. Dorset.—Hen. Strangwyshe, Giles Strangwyshe, John Horsey, Sir Thos. Trenchard. Essex:—The Earl of Essex, Lord FitzWalter, Sir...
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    Henry Ossian Flipper (category United States Army personnel who were court-martialed)
    1976, his descendants applied to the U.S. military for a review of Flipper's court-martial and dismissal. A review found the conviction and punishment were...
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  • of 1812, later court-martialed and then acquitted Isaac J. Wistar: Brigadier general of the Union Army during the American Civil War and founder of the...
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    overturn the conviction in the court-martial of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter. He was the second Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic from 1868 to...
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    Rufus King (general) (category People of Wisconsin in the American Civil War)
    South Mountain. In December 1862, King served on the court-martial of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter for disobedience and cowardice at Second Bull Run. King...
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