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| Name | Charles H. Foster |
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Plymouth, North Carolina , United States |
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February 18, 1830
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| Died | March 04, 1882
(52 years)
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | Charles Henry Foster (1830-1882) was born in Orono, Maine, on February 18, 1830. He studied law before college and graduated from Bowdoin in 1855 with first honors. After graduation, Foster was admitted to the bar and practiced in Bangor, Maine. From 1855-1856 he taught school in Augusta, and in 1857 he went to Norfolk, Virginia, and worked as editor-in-chief of the Southern Statesman, and as an associate editor of the Day Book. He moved to Murfreesboro, North Carolina, in 1859 and assumed the position of editor for The Citizen.
In 1860, Foster married Sue Agnes Carter of Murfreesboro. Her family's affluence and prestige awarded him the good graces of the Southern white community, but these graces disintegrated when he vocally supported the Union prior to Southern secession. Despite his wife's public denouncement of him in Petersburg's Daily Express, Foster enlisted as a Union captain for North Carolina's 2nd Regiment of the United States Volunteers in 1861, and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
During the Civil War he tried unsuccessfully to be elected to the U.S. Congress as a union representative from North Carolina. In 1863 he was commissioned as a captain in the Union Army and succeeded in raising a regiment of North Carolina troops which saw limited action along the coast. He was elected to the U.S. House from Union-controlled areas along the coast of North Carolina but was not seated.
His commission was taken from him in the spring of 1864 and he thereafter divided his time between a law practice at Plymouth, N.C., and trips to Maine and Boston, Mass. Foster returned to Murfreesboro as hostilities were drawing to a close in April 1865 and lived there until 1878, operating a small mercantile establishment, practicing law, and serving as a reporter to northern papers.
After the war, Foster experimented unsuccessfully with politics and business, and in 1878 he and his family relocated to Philadelphia. There he was instantly admitted to the bar, but he instead pursued his love of journalism, soon becoming the leading editorialist for the Philadelphia Record. He died on March 14, 1882, of pneumonia and was survived by his wife, three daughters, and a young son.
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