Robert C. Foster papers, 1837-1867.

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Robert C. Foster papers, 1837-1867.

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Personal, military, and legal papers. Included are muster rolls, discharge papers, land warrants for soldiers' services, and personal letters, chiefly 1846-1849, to and from Foster. Many of the letters concern claims, but two include accounts of military actions in Mexico. There also is correspondence with a friend, W.R. Douglas of Bacon College, Georgetown, Ky., about a love affair of Douglas's in the 1830s. Papers of 1867 are exclusively legal ones.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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