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G. Foster
(c. 1834 - 1876)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer with a small place at Mocksville in Davie County, NC. He enlisted there on 26 April 1861 and mustered as 4th Corporal of Company F of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May in Garysburg, NC. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861 and he was elected Captain on 28 April 1862 during the army reorganization.
On the Campaign
He commanded the company in Maryland and was commended for " gallant bearing" in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 by Lieutenant Colonel Ruffin in his after-action report.
The rest of the War
He was furloughed home, sick, on 6 December 1862. He did not return to his company and resigned for disability on 5 June 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was again farming at Mocksville, NC.
References & notes
His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a heavily retouched photograph of unknown source contributed by Rachel Reeves Wilson.
He married his first cousin Ruth Ann Booe (1836-1924) in May 1856 and they had 3 children.
Birth
c. 1834; Davie County, NC
Death
11/16/1876; Davie County, NC; burial in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Mocksville, NC
1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 491 [AotW citation 33178]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33179]