(Byron and Elizabeth Porter were the great-great-grandparents
of Professor Meda Chesney-Lind)

After being wounded at Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864, Byron Porter mustered out of the Army and soon joined the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau. One of his early duties was to escort a group of teachers who had come west to Texas, among them Lizzie Clay, then about age 18. One thing, apparently, led to another.