Confederate Biography : MARCELLUS A. FOSTER, Huntsville, TX  

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, pg. 151  


Marcellus A. Foster, of Huntsville, was born in Kentucky, 
Nov. 14th, 1836, son of Hiram Foster who was a native of Greenbrier 
county, Virginia.  The family removed in 1843 to Montgomery county, 
Tenn., where at the age of nineteen the subject of this sketch left 
the farm and became a salesman and bookkeeper at Woodlawn.  There
he volunteered, early in 1861, in Co. "G" Fourteeth Tennessee 
Infantry, and with this regiment he went to Virginia, served under 
Gen. Robt. E. Lee in that great commander's first campaign in the 
West Virgina mountains, and took part in Stonewall Jackson's winter 
march to the Potomac river.  He was in the battles of Yorktown, 
Eltham's Landing and Seven Pines; went through the Seven Days battles
before Richmond and the second Manassas compaign, In the battle of 
second Manassas, Aug. 31, 1862, he was serverly wounded in the left 
knee, unfitting him for further duty in the field.  During the 
remainder of the Confederate period he was on duty at Richmond as 
a clerk in the office of the second auditor of the Confederacy. While 
in Virginia he was married to Marietta, daughter of George Fitzhugh, 
of Port Royal, Caroline county.  Returning to Tennessee after the war 
he engaged in business there, and in 1874 removed with his wife and 
children to Huntsville, Texas.  Two of his sons, Fitzhugh and Arthur 
B., went into business life.  The other son, Hon. Marcellus E. Foster, 
editor and proprietor of the Houston Daily
Chronicle, is one of the leading journalists of the Southwest.  His paper exerts
wide influence.