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Collection: 00022H - Frank J. Hutchinson Photo Collection
Folder: 0002
Item: 00021
Title: Dr. Henry R. Porter
Date: ca. 1875
Creator: Barry, D. F.--(David Francis),--1854-1934
Inscription/Marks: On the back: Dr. H. R. Porter.
Summary: D. F. Barry, Dakota Territory photographer, has recorded Dr. Henry R. Porter in a formal 3/4 face portrait. He wears a dark coat with double row of buttons, over a white shirt, and a dark bow-tie. He has a serious expression and a mustache in the over-large style of the times. Taken ca. 1876. He signed on in 1872 as an army contract surgeon for duty in the Arizona Territory under General George Crook where he was cited for bravery. In 1873, he was assigned as a contract Surgeon with the army at Camp Hancock in Bismarck, Dakota Territory. In 1876 he joined Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer who assigned Dr. Porter to Frederick Benteen's battalion during the march to the Little Bighorn River from May to June 1876 and to Major Reno's at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Porter was the only one of the 7th Cavalry's three surgeons available to the survivors on Reno Hill for the two days they were besieged. (Dr. George Edwin Lord had been killed with Custer's Battalion (Yates' Troops E and F) and Dr. James Madison DeWolf was killed during the climb up Reno Hill.) Porter attended the wounded on the deck of the "Far West", which brought them back to Fort Abraham Lincoln after the battle. Dr. Porter left his contract service in December 1876. He testified at the Reno Court of Inquiry in 1879. (Wikipedia)
Red ID: PH_I_141899 Image ID: 102863 Image Notes: 00022-H-00021

Collection: 00022H Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Frank J. Hutchinson Photo Collection
Date: 1871-1890

Summary: Includes photographs captured by David F. Barry of Northern Plains Indians and other significant people, places, and events in Dakota Territory and the American West.

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