FOSTER BREECE CROSSMAN -- 34th INFANTRY and 23rd ARTILLERYMOVED TO THE SHORES OF LAKE MICHIGAN - Foster Breece Crossman was bornin Crown Point, NY, and spent two years from 1861 to 1863 with the34th Infantry fighting in Virginia and Maryland. When he returned toCrown Point, he married Zorada Davis.In mid-1864, he enlisted in the 23rd Independent Battery LightArtillery in Plattsburgh for which he got a town bounty of \$600. Thisbattery, originally Battery A of the Rocket battalion, was organized inAlbany and was recruited in the counties of Niagara, Essex and Warren.The regiment was originally mustered into the U. S. service at Albany,Dec. 6, 1861, for three years, and on the expiration of its term ofservice in 1864, many of the original members reenlisted and the batterycontinued in service as a veteran organization in North Carolina. Thisis when Foster joined them.In April 1865 the regiment was attached to the cavalry division of Gen.Sherman\'s army. They took part in the Campaign of the Carolinas, beingengaged at Washington, NC, and Bennett\'s House for the surrender ofGeneral Joseph Johnston on April 26, 1865. They returned to Munson'sHill on the south of the Potomac opposite Washington, DC, to be musteredout on June 5, 1865.He returned to New York, and by 1880, had moved his wife and twodaughters to the northern tip of Michigan in a small village calledPetosky on the shores of Lake Michigan where the couple farmed for therest of their lives. Foster died in August 1924 at 85 years of age andwas buried in the Littlefield Township Cemetery in Alanson, MI. He wasburied beside Zorada who had died two years before him.
