Looking Back: Dissent and lack of enthusiasm mar efforts to erect the Fitz John Porter monument.

WHEN FORMER Civil War Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter passed away in Morristown, New Jersey, on May 21, 1901, the city of Portsmouth, N.H., had received a $30,000 bequest to erect an equestrian monument in his honor. In 1902, the…

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