“The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.”

About Horace Porter

Soldier • American

Horace Porter was a distinguished American soldier, diplomat, and author who served as a Union Army officer during the Civil War. As an aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, he witnessed many of the war's most...