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Henry Martyn Porter (April 25, 1835 – February 6, 1907) was an American Civil War Union Army Officer who served as a colonel and commander of the 7th Vermont Infantry. He graduated in 1857 from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont.Chi Psi, p. 116 He then became a teacher; first in Sutherland Falls, Vermont in 1857, then in Rupert, Vermont, from 1858 to 1859, then in New York City, also in 1859.Chi Psi, p. 115 He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1861 as a private in the New York National Guard.Boyce, p. 110 He later became a captain with the Vermont Infantry and achieved the rank of colonel. From 1863 to 1864, he was the provost marshal for the city of New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
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Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Admitted to the union in 1791 as the 14th state, it is the only state in New England not bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the state has a population of 643,503, ranking it the second least-populated in the U.S. after Wyoming. It is also the nation's sixth-smallest state in area. The state's capital Montpelier is the least-populous state capital in the U.S., while its most-populous city, Burlington, is the least-populous to be a state's largest. For some 12,000 years, indigenous peoples have inhabited this area. The competitive tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki and Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk were active in the area at the time of European encounter. During the 17th century, Fr ...
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