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May 27, 1823 Whitefield, New Hampshire, United States Died on 02 Sep 1874 (aged 51)
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About John G. Foster
- John Gray Foster (May 27, 1823 – September 2, 1874) was a career military officer in the United States Army and a Union general during the American Civil War whose most distinguished services were in North and South Carolina.
- A postbellum expert in underwater demolition, he wrote the definitive treatise on the subject in 1869.
- He continued with the Army after the war, using his expertise as assistant to the Chief Engineer in Washington, DC and at a post on Lake Erie. From 1862 to December 1863 Foster commanded the Department of North Carolina.
- After the Emancipation Proclamation, he appointed Horace James, a Congregational minister, to help freedmen prepare for independent life, and directed a former contraband camp to be developed as the Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island.
- By 1864, 2200 freedmen were settled on household plots.
- Many worked for pay for the Army, which held the forts.
- Under President Andrew Johnson, after the war, the Army abandoned the colony.
- Most of the freedmen chose to return to the mainland for work.
