I knew him as a frank, positive and generous man, true to his friends even to a fault, but always a leader.
I dreaded his coming; I knew from experience that it was more difficult to command two generals desiring to be leaders than it was to command one army officered intelligently and with subordination.

It affords me the greatest pleasure to record now my agreeable disappointment in respect to his character.

There was no man braver than he, nor was there any who obeyed all orders of his superior in rank with more unquestioning alacrity.

He was one man as a soldier, another as a politician.
The navy under Porter was all it could be, during the entire campaign.
Without its assistance the campaign could not have been successfully made with twice the number of men engaged.

It could not have been made at all, in the way it was, with any number of men without such assistance.