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Foster, Ira R.

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1813 - 1885

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Joseph Emerson Brown letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0219
Abstract

Letters from Brown, most of them to his friend and business associate General Ira R. Foster, Quartermaster General of the State of Georgia during the Civil War. Also contains copies of letters between Brown and Georgia politician Howell Cobb, regarding appointing Foster as a special railway postal agent for north Georgia and north Alabama.

Dates: 1857-1867