James Anthony Foster

Enlisted 19 June 1862 from Spartanburg District in Company K, Third Infantry and was appointed 4th Corporal, giving his age as 20. He had briefly served in the 13th South Carolina Infantry and transferred to the Third and his brother (then First Lieutenant) Lewis Perrin Foster's Company. His father, Barham Bobo Foster had been Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment up to the Spring of 1862.

He was killed in action on 13 September 1862 on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry.

Originally buried on the battlefield, later reinterred at Hollywood Cemetery, in Richmond, VA, finally in the family plot.

Basic information from Salley1,2. Further details from John Belton O'Neall Landrum's History of Spartanburg County (Atlanta: Franklin Printing and Publishing, 1900), pp. 436-437. His brother Lewis Perrin Foster was killed in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862.

Much more about the Foster family and wartime experiences is available in A. Gilbert Kennedy's A South Carolina Upcountry Saga: The Civil War Letters of Barham Bobo Foster and His Family, 1860-1863 (2019) [see also Drew Wagenhoffer's CWBA review].

03/12/1843

09/13/1862; Maryland Heights, MD; burial in Foster Family Cemetery, Spartanburg, SC