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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
r of Margaret Breckinridge, and the second who survived him was her cousin. One of the delegates of the Christian Commission writes concerning him: Colonel Peter B. Porter, of Niagara Falls, commanding the 8th New York heavy artillery, was killed within five or six rods of the rebel lines. Seven wounds were found upon his beat for the wearied body and the bereaved heart. Gathering up her small remnant of strength and courage she went to Baltimore to join the afflicted family of Colonel Porter, saying characteristically, I can do more good with them than anywhere else just now. After a week's rest in Baltimore she proceeded with them to Niagara, beged her to yield her place to Mrs. Barker. The Fourteenth Corps by Miss Armstrong. The Fifteenth and Seventeenth Corps by ladies belonging to those corps--Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Bickerdyke-whose admirable services rendered other presence superfluous. The Twentieth Corps was visited by Mrs. Johnson. The articles selected f