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Peter Augustus Porter.
Colonel 129th New York Vols. (afterwards 8th New York heavy artillery), August 17, 1862; killed at cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864.
in how many of the students of Harvard does every favoring element seem to have combined—culture, purity, self-reliance, and courage—to give promise of high a their death accorded them the achievement of every possibility life could have bestowed.
Of such was Peter Augustus Porter, a graduate of Harvard of the Class of 1845.
He died in the service of his country on the 3d of June, 1864, at the battle of Cold Harbor.
There was something impressive and noble in the circumstances of he lost his father, and was thus early initiated into the responsibilities of life.
He entered Harvard University, in the Sophomore class, in 1842, graduating in 1845.
After this, he spent several years in Europe, as a student at the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin, and Breslau.
On his return, in 1852, he married (March 30t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Appendix. (search)
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