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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
Captain Foster left Appomattox April 13, 1865, just four years from the day he left home for the war. In 1868 he established his business as a merchant at Union, which he has successfully conducted for thirty years. He is deeply interested in the welfare of his comrades and is the present commander of Camp Giles, U. C. V., of Union. Henry Poyas Foster Henry Poyas Foster, of Summerville, a survivor of the Twenty-seventh regiment, Hagood's brigade, was born in Charleston district, October 12, 1846. He was educated at the city, and had prepared for college, when in March, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Sumter Guards, Company D, Charleston battalion. He served until 1864 on the South Carolina coast, participating for two weeks in the defense of Fort Wagner, and there receiving a slight wound in August, 1863, and several times was on duty in Fort Sumter under fire. In the fall of 1863 the battalion was merged in the Twenty-seventh regiment, and as one of the color guard o