Foster, a farmer in Nottoway County, VA in 1860, enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 3rd VA Cavalry on May 27, 1861. He was hospitalized in Farmville, VA in May 1862 and is listed on the same document as deserted in October 1862, although this may be an error. He was shot in the arm at Kelly's Ford, VA on March 17, 1863 and hospitalized in Charlottesville, VA. Foster was promoted to corporal on July 15, 1863. By the time of his surrender and parole on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House, he had been promoted to sergeant.
Foster died on January 20, 1919 and is buried in the Marshall Family Cemetery in Rehoboth, Lunenburg County, VA.
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