Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te wā o te pakanga, i mahi ia hei Tumuaki o te Rōpū i roto i te Ope o te Potomac, Te Tari o Ohio me te Ope o te Cumberland. I whakahonoretia ia i te Pakanga o Fort Pulaski, Georgia, i te Pakanga o Chickamauga, i te Pakanga o te Moana me te
Te Pakanga Tuarua o te Teihana o Ream (New Market Heights). I te Pipiri 26, 1902 ranei Hurae 8, 1902, i whakawhiwhia a Porter ki te Tohu Whakahonore mo te Pakanga o Chickamauga e rite ana ki nga korero i whakahuatia i raro nei. I te tau whakamutunga o te pakanga, i mahi ia i runga i nga kaimahi o Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, i muri mai i te tuhi i tetahi tuhinga o te wheako, "Campaigning With Grant" (1897).