Bertie County NcArchives Military Records.....Foster, Charles Family ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerald Thomas gerald_thomas00@comcast.net February 24, 2017, 4:45 pm Detention Of Charles Henry Foster’s Family Detention of Charles Henry Foster’s Family Charles Henry Foster, a native of Maine, on the eve of the Civil War, resided in Murfreesboro, Hertford County, where he was the owner and editor of a small newspaper, The Citizen. A lawyer by profession and politician by ambition, Foster was a staunch Unionist and became a recruiter of North Carolina men for the Union Army. He was intimately engaged in recruiting the First North Carolina Union Volunteers and was appointed lieutenant colonel of the Second North Carolina Union Volunteers. A significant number of Bertie County’s sons served in both regiments. In July 1863, Foster’s wife and small daughter left their home in Murfreesboro and began travelling to join Charles H. Foster across Union lines. As Mrs. Foster and her daughter were travelling near Windsor, they were “intercepted” by members of a company of the Sixty-Second Georgia Cavalry. The soldiers refused to allow the pair to proceed. Citizens of Bertie County, many of whom had family members serving in the Union military services and others who were simply decent people, “were greatly exasperated at the outrage.” Mrs. Foster and her daughter, obviously were not combatants, and posed no danger if allowed to join Mr. Foster. The mother and daughter were “imprisoned” in a house around which a strong Confederate guard was placed. In short order, Mrs. Foster and her daughter were released and compelled to return to their home in Murfreesboro. Sources: NCPedia, “Charles Henry Foster;” Wilmington Journal, July 23, 1863. (For information on Charles Henry Foster, see Divided Allegiances: Bertie County during the Civil War, pages 101-104, 111, 124, 131; for information on the Sixty-Second Georgia Cavalry, see pages 84-85, 88-89, 103-104, 115, 118, 142.) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie/military//other/foster710gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb