Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (William Marvel - UA) cup the commander of the Army

the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia

Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps

The results in the muddy fields reverberated across the North and South

In the mid-1700s the English captain of a trading ship that made runs between England and the Virginia colony fathered a child by an enslaved woman living near Williamsburg

Radical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (William Marvel - UA) cup the commander of the ArmyRadical Sacrifice: The Rise and Ruin of Fitz John Porter (Civil War America) by William Marvel Born into a distinguished military family, Fitz John Porter (1822 1901) was educated at West Point and breveted for bravery in the war with Mexico. Already a well respected officer at the outset of the Civil War, as a general in the Union army he became a favorite of George B. McClellan, who chose him to command the Fifth Corps of the Army of the Potomac.