 Besides the marker at the Little Bighorn Battlefield, a family cenotaph memorial for Porter exists at the cemetery in his hometown of Strong, Maine which indicates his death at Custer's Last Stand, perhaps Maine's only monument to the battle.A large ceremony was held for Porter upon his death at the Congregational church in Strong, Maine.A coast artillery battery at Fort Hunt in Virginia was named in Porter's honor in 1903, and the James E. Porter Post of the Grand Army of the Republic in Weld, Maine in Porter's home county was named in his honor as well.