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Horace C. Porter (April 15, 1837 – May 29, 1921) was an American soldier and diplomat who served as a lieutenant colonel, ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General and President Ulysses S. Grant.
Horace Porter was a West Point graduate, ordnance expert, and courier who served in several battles and campaigns during the Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Antietam and later became a historian and author.
Horace Porter is a black scholar who moved from rural Georgia to the Ivy League and became a professor of African American studies. His memoir, The Making of a Black Scholar, chronicles his academic journey and the changes in American education.
Born in 1950, Horace Porter starts out in rural Georgia in a house that has neither electricity nor running water. In 1968, he leaves his home in Columbus, Georgia—thanks to an academic scholarship to Amherst College—and lands in an upper-class, mainly white world.
Horace Porter, 1837–1921, American soldier and diplomat, b. Huntingdon, Pa. In the Civil War he saw varied service, mostly as an ordnance officer, before becoming (1864) aide-de-camp to Gen. U. S. Grant. After the war, Porter was briefly Assistant Secretary of War when Grant was Secretary of War.
Horace Porter was the F. Wendell Miller Professor of English & American Studies. He served as chair of Iowa’s Department of American Studies as well as the chair of the African American Studies Program from January 2012 - July 31, 2017, when he retired from the University.
The papers of Horace Porter (1837-1921) span the years 1853-1922 and consist of correspondence, a diary, family papers, photographs, and speeches. The papers relate to Porter's Civil War service, his activities with the Pullman Company and the
