TY  - GEN
AU  - Porter,Fitz-John
TI  - Fitz-John Porter papers,
KW  - Bullitt, John C.
KW  - Grant, Ulysses S.
KW  - Hoar, George Frisbie,
KW  - Johnson, Reverdy,
KW  - Lord, Theodore Akerly,
KW  - Mangold, Ferdinand Franz,
KW  - McClellan, Carswell,
KW  - McClellan, George Brinton,
KW  - McDowell, Irvin,
KW  - Patterson, Robert,
KW  - Pope, John,
KW  - Ruggles, George D.
KW  - Sewell, William Joyce,
KW  - Weld, Stephen Minot,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Corps, 5th (1862-1865)
KW  - Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
KW  - Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862
KW  - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
KW  - Malvern Hill, Battle of, Va., 1862
KW  - Mexican War, 1846-1848
KW  - Peninsular Campaign, 1862
KW  - Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1861
KW  - Manassas (Va.)
KW  - History
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Texas
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Utah
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Army officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Public officials
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
N1  - Open to research; Microfilm edition excluding scrapbooks available; no. 19,858; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1988
N2  - Correspondence, telegrams, reports, memoranda, articles, autobiographical, biographical and genealogical material, financial and legal papers, annotated printed matter, scrapbooks, maps, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Porter's court-martial and cashiering out of military service on January 21, 1863, as a result of his conduct during the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 29, 1862, the review by a board of officers, his reinstatement, honorable retirement in 1879, congressional action taken, and presidential pardon.  Documents support of fellow officers in Porter's charges of incompetence and slander against Generals John Pope and Irwin McDowell; Also includes material concerning the conduct of the 5th Army Corps under Porter's leadership in the Peninsular Campaign, at Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, and Antietam; autobiographical and biographical studies relating to Porter's early military career, particularly in the war with Mexico and the Utah Expedition (1857-1860); correspondence and military papers dealing with Porter's Texas Expedition (1861) and the first Shenandoah Valley Campaign under Robert Patterson; unpublished biographical works by Theodore Akerly Lord covering Porter's military career from the Mexican War to the Shenandoah Campaign as well as by Carswell McClellan concerning the court-martial; and an ms. translation from the German pertaining to Ferdinand Franz Mangold's campaign in Northern Virginia in August 1862; Correspondents include John C. Bullitt, Ulysses S. Grant, George Frisbie Hoar, Reverdy Johnson, George Brinton McClellan, George D. Ruggles, William Joyce Sewell, and Stephen Minot Weld
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005015
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005015.3
ER  -