Person

Charles Warren Foster (Capt, maj, lt col, col, asst adjt genl of Vols (U.S. Army); chief Bureau of USCT)

b. 1830-03-21 d. 1904-05-10

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.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

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).

Citation

Foster, Charles Warren. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215241 (November 12, 2026).

The people, organizations, and places listed below appear in the same documents as Charles Warren Foster (Capt, maj, lt col, col, asst adjt genl of Vols (U.S. Army); chief Bureau of USCT). They are sorted by the number of documents they share.

Documents (1)

People

Organizations

Places

Loading network...

Network Visualized

How to use the visualization

CWGK’s network visualization brings the edition’s documents to life. The network on this page centers around Foster, Charles Warren. Click on the light blue dot to see the documents in which the entity appears. You can also click on the dark orange dots to see other people linked to Foster, Charles Warren, a light orange dot to see the places connected to Foster, Charles Warren, or dark green dots to see organizations linked to Foster, Charles Warren.

Additionally, the lines between the dots add additional information. The light green lines demonstrate direct connections between Foster, Charles Warren and another person, place, or organization. The light pink lines highlight that the dots appear in the same document.