Yeoman's in the Fork Blog

In April 1864 he was at the wrong place at the wrong time, being captured among hundreds of other Union soldiers at Plymouth, NC; eventually serving in six Confederate prisons between April and November of 1864. He was again in just the wrong place on September 17th 1864 while a prisoner of war in Roper’s Hospital in Charleston. The Federals were bombing Confederate-Charleston from Morris Island in the summer when a spent Federal artillery shell came through the roof at Roper’s Hospital; smashing into the bench he was sitting on, grazing his arm. Foote would eventually escape from Camp Sorghum, SC in late November 1864, spelling his way down the Santee River courtesy of the valued an inestimable assistance of the local contraband-negro population. His Forrest Gump-like Civil War service was capped off with him personally attending Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in April 1865.