Fitz-Hugh Porter
Character Key Number:
3672
Display Name:
Fitz-Hugh Porter
Sort Name:
Porter, Fitz-Hugh
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
Porter was a career Army officer who led a Union division at Gaine's Mill, Virginia, during the Civil War. In The Reivers it is one of the men in that division who shoots Lucius' great-grandfather "out of his saddle" (278).