Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — NOTED WAR FIGURE WHO DIED IN NEW JERSEY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NOTED WAR FIGURE WHO DIED IN NEW JERSEY.

General Fitz John Porter, formerly major general of the United States army, who was casTHered during the civil war and afterward restored to his rank by act of Congress, died at his kome in Morristown, N. J., Tuesday. General Porter was 80 years old and was highly regarded by the younger

officers of the regular army, who accepted General Grant’s dictum that if Porter had been in comman at Bull Run the war would have stopped there and then. For several years he had been living in retirement on the comfortable fortune accumulated by his business activities after he left the army.