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| | Summary description of Charles Henry Foster Papers, Mss. Dept., UNC-Chapel Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Native of Orono, Me., Foster attended Bowdoin College and in 1857 moved to Norfolk, Va., where he worked as a newspaper editor. |
 | | His commission was taken from him in the spring of 1864 and he thereafter divided his time between a law practice at Plymouth, N.C., and trips to Maine and Boston, Mass. |
 | | Foster returned to Murfreesboro as hostilities were drawing to a close in April 1865 and lived there until 1878, operating a small mercantile establishment, practicing law, and serving as a reporter to northern papers. |
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