1-344-907 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

David Dixon Porter, United States admiral, 1862-1867. One of the foremost Union naval commanders of the Civil War, Porter (1813-1891) played a prominent role in the operations that secured Union control of the Mississippi. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.