{"id":166,"date":"2012-06-01T23:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T03:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/?p=166"},"modified":"2012-06-01T23:29:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T03:29:47","slug":"jesse-john-porter-civil-war-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/jesse-john-porter-civil-war-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse & John Porter – Civil War Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published under\u00a0My Two Ancestors That Fought in the Civil War by S.J. Porter<\/em>1
\n<\/span><\/sup><\/strong>Contributed by Jo Branch<\/p>\n

Jesse Porter was born on the 4 of July 1840 in Gates County, North Carolina [see\u00a0Porter Bible<\/a>]. Now Jesse Porter had a wife named Margaret Evira Mathias . They had fourteen children.\u00a0 Jesse died in 1909.\u00a0 Their oldest son’s name was John Benjamin Porter. He was born 28 Feb 1869 in Corapeake, Gates County, NC. John died on 29 Apr 1923 and was buried in Jackson,\u00a0 Clarke County, Alabama. They were my great-grandparents.\u00a0 Jesse’s parents were James [born ca 1817 – VA] and Martha Benet Knight Porter. They had 3 sons and 2 daughters.\u00a0 Jesse Porter served with the 33rd<\/sup>\u00a0North Carolina State Troops Company D (North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster<\/em>, compiled by Weymouth T. Jordan, Jr.)\u00a0 This company was raised in Gates County and enlisted there in August 1861. It was mustered into state service at Raleigh on December 14, 1861 and was assigned to the 33rd<\/sup>\u00a0Regiment NC Troops as Company H. When the regiment was transferred to Confederate service on January 9, 1862, the company was designated Company E. The company functioned thereafter as a part of the 33rd<\/sup>\u00a0Regiment, and its history for the remainder of the war is reported as a part of the regimental history.<\/p>\n

A special ceremony was held by the SCV2<\/span><\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0near Corapeake, N.C. August 8, 1998 to honor Jesse Porter and his brother, John.\u00a0 [see also the\u00a0Dixie Invincibles Monument<\/a>\u00a0at Middletown, Hyde Co., NC<\/p>\n

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Footsnote #1<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0– Article written at age 10 by S. J. Porter and originally published in\u00a0Legends and Legacies of Winn Parish, Louisiana<\/em>, Vol. 3, No. 4, January 2000.
\nFootnote #2<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0– A special thank you to Seth David Latham [see\u00a0obituary<\/a>], Adjutant and past commander of Belhaven’s Camp 1695, for the use of the Porter information from his website and cousin Mary Looney for use of the photographs taken that day.<\/p>\n

Permission was granted exclusively to S. J. Porter and B. J. Branch for the use of information and photographs provided by Seth Latham and Mary Looney.<\/p>\n

A copy of this file may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use and\/or uploading to another site is in direct violation of copyright laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally published under\u00a0My Two Ancestors That Fought in the Civil War by S.J. Porter1 Contributed by Jo Branch Jesse Porter was born on the 4 of July 1840 in Gates County, North Carolina [see\u00a0Porter Bible]. Now Jesse Porter had a wife named Margaret Evira Mathias . They had fourteen children.\u00a0 Jesse died in 1909.\u00a0 Their oldest son’s name was John Benjamin Porter. He was born 28 Feb 1869 in Corapeake, Gates County, NC. John died on 29 Apr 1923 and was buried in Jackson,\u00a0 Clarke County, Alabama. They were my great-grandparents.\u00a0 Jesse’s parents were James [born ca 1817 – VA] and Martha Benet Knight Porter. They had 3 sons and 2 daughters.\u00a0 Jesse Porter served with the 33rd\u00a0North Carolina State Troops Company D (North Carolina Troops 1861-1865: A Roster, compiled by Weymouth T. Jordan, Jr.)\u00a0 This company was raised in Gates County and enlisted there in August 1861. It was mustered into state service at Raleigh on December 14, 1861 and was assigned to the 33rd\u00a0Regiment NC Troops as Company H. When the regiment was transferred to Confederate service on January 9, 1862, the company was designated Company E. The company functioned thereafter as a part of the 33rd\u00a0Regiment, and its history for the remainder of the war is reported as a part of the regimental history. A special ceremony was held by the SCV2\u00a0near Corapeake, N.C. August 8, 1998 to honor Jesse Porter and his brother, John.\u00a0 [see also the\u00a0Dixie Invincibles Monument\u00a0at Middletown, Hyde Co., NC   Footsnote #1\u00a0– Article written at age 10 by S. J. Porter and originally published in\u00a0Legends and Legacies of Winn Parish, Louisiana, Vol. 3, No. 4, January 2000. Footnote #2\u00a0– A special thank you to Seth David Latham [see\u00a0obituary], Adjutant and past commander of Belhaven’s Camp 1695, for the use of the Porter information from his website and cousin Mary Looney for use of the photographs taken that day. Permission was granted exclusively to S. J. Porter and B. J. Branch for the use of information and photographs provided by Seth Latham and Mary Looney. A copy of this file may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use and\/or uploading to another site is in direct violation of copyright laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[15828],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","tag-porter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/gates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}