...e the report was Lieutenant Thomas K. Porter, who commanded Porter's Battery at Fort Donelson with such skill and courage, who was a brother of the soldier-statesman, ex-Governor James D. Porter, of Tennessee , and whose death was deeply lamented by a wide circle of friends and admirers.] To Lieutenant-Commander C. M. Morris, Confederate States Navy. Liverpool, February 20th, 1865. Sir,—In obe...