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Federal (USV)

Private

William Foster

Home State: New Jersey

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd New Jersey Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Company I, 3rd New Jersey Infantry on 10 May 1861.

On the Campaign

He was listed as a deserter on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg, MD.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New Jersey1.

Notes

1   State of New Jersey, Adjutant-General's Office, and William Scudder Stryker, Adjutant General, Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Trenton: John L. Murphy, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1876, Vol. 1, pp. 174 - 181  [AotW citation 14591]