Charles Porter Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army |
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Porter of Ireland
Private, Corporal and Quartermaster Sergeant, 5th U. S. Infantry, 26 April 1858 to 27 November 1862 Second Lieutenant, 5th U. S. Infantry, 31 October 1863 First Lieutenant, 20 February 1865 Transferred to 8th U. S. Infantry, 18 January 1870 Captain, 1 August 1872 Major, 5th U. S. Infantry, 10 March 1896 Lieutenant Colonel, 22 U. S. Infantry, 28 September 1898 Brevet Major, 27 February 1890 for gallant service in action against Indians in Arizona, 15 August 1876, 7 January 1878 and 3 April 1878 Retired 23 December 1898 Died 15 October 1902 October 17, 1902: Lieutenant Colonel Charles Porter, United States
Army, retired, died in Washington Wednesday night. His remains will
be interred in the National Cemetery at Arlington. The dead officer
enlisted in the Army as a Private in 1858. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant
of the Fifth Infantry in 1863, was First Lieuenant in 1865, transferred
to the Eighth Infantry in 1870, became a Captain in 1872, and was made
a Major of the Fifth Infantry in 1896. In 1898 he was made Lieutenant Colonel
of theTwenty-second Infantry, and was retired the same year. He was
a native of Ireland.
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