| Abstract |
Correspondence includes letters from Adjutant General A. M. Fisher, Joseph William Holden, and Robert H. Lyon. A scrapbook contains additional correspondence, in which Foster discusses the 1898 Wilmington election; Foster's passport; and a doctor's list of charges for the delivery of babies. Miscellaneous items include Foster's Union Army enlistment papers; special order from the Quartermaster Department of the Union Army; certificates verifying Foster's appointment as a relief agent for the United States Sanitary Commission and his appointment as postmaster in Bladen County; commissions in the North Carolina Militia; deed for land in New Hanover County; a Superior Court brief; proposal for a new water works for Wilmington; a copy of Foster's will; and photographs. |
| Access restriction | Joyner- No access restrictions. |
| Cite as |
Flavel W. Foster Papers (#93), Special Collections Department, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA. |
| Terms of use | Joyner- Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- Gift of Mr. D. Russell Foster. |
| Biographical note | Flavel W. Foster (1840-1902) was born in Canton, Pa., and was with the Union Army during its operations on the North Carolina coast, including the Battle of Fort Fisher in 1865. After the war he remained in North Carolina and became a prominent merchant of Bladen and New Hanover Counties. Foster was a Republican member of the North Carolina legislature from Bladen County during Reconstruction and was active in the local affairs and politics of Wilmington. He was elected to the Wilmington board of aldermen in 1878 and chairman of the New Hanover County commissioners in 1896. |
