Foster, Robert Sanford

Life Span

01/27/1834 to 03/03/1903

Life Summary

Full name

Robert Sanford Foster

Place of Birth

Burial Place

Birth Date Certainty

Exact

Death Date Certainty

Exact

Gender

Male

Race

White

Sectional choice

North

Origins

Free State

No. of Siblings

No. of Spouses

No. of Children

Family

Riley Shaw Foster (father), Sarah Wallace Foster (mother), Margaret Foust (wife)

Occupation

Military

Businessman

Other Occupation

Tinner

Relation to Slavery

White non-slaveholder

Other Affiliation

Grand Army of the Republic

Military

Union Army

Date	Event
05/06/1865	In Washington, the officers of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters are named
05/09/1865	In Washington, membership of the military court for John Wilkes Booth's accused fellow plotters is adjusted
05/10/1865	In Washington, the accused Lincoln Assassination plotters all plead not guilty before their military court
05/12/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial begins
05/13/1865 - 06/13/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial continues
06/14/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial concludes
06/15/1865 - 06/28/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, final arguments are being made in the Lincoln conspiracy trial
06/29/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the Commission in the Lincoln conspiracy trial begin their deliberations
07/05/1865	In Washington, President Andrew Johnson approves the sentences passed down to the Lincoln conspirators
07/06/1865	In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the Lincoln conspirators are told their fate in their cells

Robert Sanford Foster, circa 1865