Robert Sanford Foster (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Sanford Foster was a Union general during the American Civil War. He played a prominent role in the siege of Petersburg and the Appomattox Campaign. Foster was born in Vernon, Indiana in 1834. He moved to Indianapolis to learn the trade of being a tinner. Foster enlisted as a private of Indiana volunteers at the onset of the Civil War. He was quickly promoted to captain in Lew Wallace's 11th Indiana Zouave Regiment and saw action at the Battle of Rich Mountain in western Virginia. Following these battles he was transferred to the 13th Indiana Volunteers as major and shortly after promoted to colonel on April 30, 1862. Foster led his regiment during Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862 until his regiment was transferred to southeast Virginia in the vicinity of Suffolk.