John Foster


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Matthew Brady E & H. T. Anthony / New York po0677p.jpg PO-0677 B&W 1700-0677-0000 po0677p Print 2.5x4.5 Historic Photographs 1860-1864 Reproduction requires permission. Digital images property of SHM Library & Archives

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Formal military portrait of Major General John Gray Foster.  NOTE:  This photo was previously misidentified as Lieutenant Edward Lewis Stevens. 

John Gray Foster (b. 1823 - d. 1874) was born on May 27, 1823 in Whitefield, New Hampshire. A graduate in 1846 from the Military Academy (unknown), he was assigned to the Engineer Corps. He served in the Mexican War (1846-1848) under General Winfield Scott, then Assistant Engineer on coastal survey work. He was a defender of Fort Sumter (South Carolina) on the night of December 26-27, 1860. He was commissioned Brigadier General of Volunteers in 1861 for services at Roanoke Island in General Ambrose Burnside's expeditions. Other assignments included Command of the Department of North Carolina and Virginia and the Army and Department of the Ohio. After a bad fall from his horse he was given command of the Department of the South.

After the war, Foster commanded the Department of Florida and was superintendant of river and harbor construction in Boston and Portmouth. John had one daughter, Annie M. Foster who married Major Henry Seton who was stationed in Arizona Territory. John died on September 3, 1874 in Nashua, New Hampshire.

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