Few persons have ever heard of Major General Fitz John Porter. Yet he was one of the most heroic and most skillful fighting Generals of the American Civil War. The Porter Conspiracy is a story of the three days of the terrible fighting during the Second Battle of Manassas. Porter's Court Martial after the battle was the most important trial of that century. A heroic and innocent General was stripped of his rank and his honor.The Porter Conspiracy is a tale told in stark and bloody detail of the Second Battle of Manassas by the men who fought (and died) in that battle. General Porter's bad luck was a case of ?collateral damage'. His misfortune took from him his sacred honor and his reputation. Porter's trial and conviction for disobeying orders in time of war and in the face of the enemy and for cowardice, was a perversion and a parody of justice. His Court Martial was a conspiracy carefully constructed by men in high places to cover up the crimes of lesser men.The Porter Conspiracy sheds light on the causes of the Civil War, on the people of those times, and on a hundred and fifty years of the corrosive effect of slavery on the men and women of a new nation. The Porter Conspiracy is a study of a good and honorable man, who fought to the limits of human endurance to right a terrible wrong.