I, sensing the danger of the expedition, "left a satchel of personal papers with Mrs. Eliza Porter, the wife of Company I's Lieutenant James Porter, and instructed her to burn them should he be killed." In 1882 the U.S. Congress in a special bill awarded Eliza Porter a larger pension than normal due to her husband's death at the Little Bighorn. Eliza Porter was living in San Jose, California at the time of her death in 1915.
The narrator left a bag of personal papers with Mrs. Eliza Porter, wife of Lieutenant James Porter from Company I, instructing her to burn them if he died during the expedition. In 1882, Congress awarded Eliza a larger pension than usual due to her husband's death at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Eliza lived in San Jose, California when she passed away in 1915.