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On June 4, 1922, while on a visit to his sons in Huntsville, Ala, G. W. D. Porter quietly and peacefully passed over the river to join his comrades on the other shore. His wife survives him, their life together having extended over fifty-two years.

Comrade Porter served as sergeant of Company B, 44th Tennessee Regiment, which was enlisted in the fall of 1861 as State troops, and the expiration of the twelve months' enlistment, the command was enrolled as Confederate troops for the war. He participated in all the battles of his regiment, besides many skirmishes, receiving but one wound, and that a slight wound in the arm. He was one of sixteen of his company that captured Wilcox's Brigade in front of Petersburg, Va., on June 16, 1864, and was himself captured the next morning, and taken to Point Lookout, Md., where he was held three months, then taken to Elmira, N. Y., where he endured all the horrors of that place. In March, 1865, he was paroled and sent to Richmond for exchange, but, on account of not being exchanged, he could not take part in the last battle before the surrender; and because he would not take the oath of allegiance, the Federals would not give him transportation, so he walked over nine hundred miles to his home in Middle Tennessee, where he quietly resumed his farm life.