[2] Fitz John Porter's long fight to clear his name.(Saturday)(The Civil War)

The Washington Times | October 19, 1996| | Copyright

Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter stared hard at Special Order No. 337, issued by the War Department and dated Nov. 10, 1862. By direction of the president, he was relieved of command of the V Corps, Army of the Potomac, and ordered to report immediately to the adjutant general in Washington. For radical Republicans, led by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, it was part of the continuing shakeup of an army "that was not quite responsive to the will of the government."

First Gen. George B. McClellan had been sacked after the bloody Battle of Antietam. Now the target ...

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