03 JUNE 2020, transfer. Added gender. 1) GAR Member. The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (U.S. Navy), Marines and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service who served in the American Civil War. 2) original bio section below divider. ~
Husband of Easter J Porter, father of David Washington Porter.
Private, Companies F & I, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted in Carroll Co, TN on 9/14/1862 with the consent of his parents. He served out his one year enlistment and mustered out at Saulsbury, TN on 10/25/1863. At the time of his re-enlistment at Paducah, KY he was a refugee resident of Magnolia, IL. He was discharged with the regiment when it disbanded at Nashville, TN on 8/9/1865. He applied for an invalid pension in 1878. He joined Post #56 of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) in 1887 and was an officer on 12/18/1896. His wife, Easter J Jones Porter, applied for a widow's pension in 1916 from Oklahoma. He was the brother of David Porter also of Company I. (Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014)
03 JUNE 2020, transfer. Added gender. 1) GAR Member. The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (U.S. Navy), Marines and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service who served in the American Civil War. 2) original bio section below divider. ~
Husband of Easter J Porter, father of David Washington Porter.
Private, Companies F & I, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted in Carroll Co, TN on 9/14/1862 with the consent of his parents. He served out his one year enlistment and mustered out at Saulsbury, TN on 10/25/1863. At the time of his re-enlistment at Paducah, KY he was a refugee resident of Magnolia, IL. He was discharged with the regiment when it disbanded at Nashville, TN on 8/9/1865. He applied for an invalid pension in 1878. He joined Post #56 of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) in 1887 and was an officer on 12/18/1896. His wife, Easter J Jones Porter, applied for a widow's pension in 1916 from Oklahoma. He was the brother of David Porter also of Company I. (Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014)
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