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Horace Porter Horace Porter, American soldier and diplomat who served ordnance officer and staff officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, personal secretary to General Ulysses S. Grant and to General William T. Sherman, he was appointed to the brevet grade of brigadier general, United States Army. TLS April 6, 1897 Thanking Colonel Montgomery for his congratulations for his appointment to the ambassador to France.