His body was never recovered or identified.
1st Lt Porter, Company I, 7th US Cavalry Regiment, was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. His remains were never identified. But a buckskin jacket, with his name sewn in it and several bullet holes, was found in a abandoned Lakota/Cheyenne village. He was survived by his wife, Eliza Frances, and two sons, David and James Frances Porter. David died in a mining accident in Idaho, 1908. James died as an infant in 1876.
1st Lt Porter, Company I, 7th US Cavalry Regiment, was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. His remains were never identified. But a buckskin jacket, with his name sewn in it and several bullet holes, was found in a abandoned Lakota/Cheyenne village. He was survived by his wife, Eliza Frances, and two sons, David and James Frances Porter. David died in a mining accident in Idaho, 1908. James died as an infant in 1876.
His body was never recovered or identified.
1st Lt Porter, Company I, 7th US Cavalry Regiment, was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. His remains were never identified. But a buckskin jacket, with his name sewn in it and several bullet holes, was found in a abandoned Lakota/Cheyenne village. He was survived by his wife, Eliza Frances, and two sons, David and James Frances Porter. David died in a mining accident in Idaho, 1908. James died as an infant in 1876.
1st Lt Porter, Company I, 7th US Cavalry Regiment, was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. His remains were never identified. But a buckskin jacket, with his name sewn in it and several bullet holes, was found in a abandoned Lakota/Cheyenne village. He was survived by his wife, Eliza Frances, and two sons, David and James Frances Porter. David died in a mining accident in Idaho, 1908. James died as an infant in 1876.
Inscription
Died in the Custer Massacre.
Gravesite Details
This is a memorial marker. His actual remains were never identified at the Little Bighorn Battlefield.
Family Members
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