Charles Warren Foster

Birth Date

1830-03-21

Death Date

1904-05-10

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Major and Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers (U.S. Army). Massachusetts native. Son of Moses Foster and Mary E. Foster. Veteran of the U.S.-Mexican War. Shoemaker in Essex County, Massachusetts, in 1860. Served as captain and assistant adjutant general of U.S. Volunteers from September 1861, to May 1863. Served as chief of Bureau for Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) from May 22, 1863, to November 1867. Breveted major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel of U.S. Volunteers.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Massachusetts, Essex, Groveland, p. 28.
Guy V. Henry, Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, vol. 1 (New York: Van Nostrand, 1873), 21.
Dudley Taylor Cornish, The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987), 130.
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, New York, Application #811220.
Find A Grave, "Col Charles Warren Foster (1830-1904)," Memorial #127326695, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127326695 (accessed December 29, 2020).

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