Colonel Foster was considered a wealthy man before the war, but when it ended he was left penniless.  At that time he lived near Glenn Springs, Spartanburg County.  In 1867 he moved to Union County and merchandised until 1884.  He was also County Treasurer for a long time.  He died on June 9th. 1897, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Benjamin Kennedy, at Jonesville, Union County.  In early life Colonel Foster married Miss Mary Ann Perrin, a sister of Colonel Thomas C. Perrin, of Abbeville.  She died in 1886.  Three daughters survive Colonel Foster, Mrs. I.G.  McKissick, Mrs. Benjamin Kennedy, and Mrs. J.A.  Thompson.  Colonel Foster was one of God’s noblemen.  He was true to his friends, his family, and his country.  He never flinched from danger nor from his duty.  He was faithful at all times and under all circumstances to the best principles of the Anglo-Saxon race.

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COLONEL THOMAS G. BACON, OF THE SEVENTH SOUTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEERS.

Thomas Glascock Bacon was born in Edgefield Village of English ancestry on the 24th of June, 1812.  He was the youngest son of Major Edmund Bacon, the eloquent and distinguished member of the Edgefield Bar, and author of the humorous “Georgia Scenes,” written under the nom de plume of Ned Brace.  Colonel Bacon’s mother was a sister of Brigadier General Thomas F. Glascock, of Georgia, a gallant and distinguished officer of the Revolutionary War, and after whom Colonel Bacon was named.  He received the early rudiments of education at the Edgefield Academy, and when at the proper age he was sent for his classical education to the Pendleton English and Classical Institute, under the tutilage of that profound scholar and educator, Prof.  S.M.  Shuford.  Colonel Bacon was fond of the classics, and had acquired rare literary attainments, and had he cultivated his tastes in that line assiduously, he no doubt would have become the foremost scholar of the State, if not the South.  He was passionately fond of manly sports and out-door exercise.  He was a devotee of the turf, and this disposition led him early in life to the development of fast horses and a breeder of blooded stock.  He was a turfman of the old school, and there were but few courses in the South that had not tested the mettle of his stock.  But like his brother in arms, Colonel Cash, of the Eighth, and brother turfman, he became disgusted with the thievery and trickery of later day sports and quit the turf, still owning at his death some of the most noted racers of the times, Granger Lynchburg, John Payne, Glengary, Father Ryan, Ned Brace, and others of lesser note.