government, education the foundation of, 533
Porter, Adm. David D., trip by Grant and S. to visit, 294, 295; in military conference at Cape Fear River, 346; superintendent of Naval Academy, Annapolis, 439
Porter, Maj.-Gen., Fitz-John, sits in court-martial on S. at West Point, 241, 242; court-martial judgment on, reversed, 242; board of review in case of, 443; review of his case, 460-466; restored to the army, 460; appeals to S. in 1868, 460, 461; despatches to Burnside, 462
Porter, Col., Horace, mission from Grant to Sherman, 306
Posse Comitatus Act, the, 509
Potomac River, the, S.'s troops delayed in, 294, 346
Powder Spring Road, Ga., military operations on the, 135
Prairie Grove, Ark., battle of, 62-6???
Press, a false freedom of the, 425
Price, Maj.-Gen., Sterling, defeated by Lyon at Boonville, 37
Proctor, Redfield, Secretary of War, 423. See also War Department.
Professional patriots, 539, 540
Provisional government, 376, 377
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