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America (C.S.A.). He later served in the Secret Service with the rank of Captain.

The story is told in his family that on May 22, 1864 JAMES was captured at
Pollocksville, N.C. and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland. He was released
from Point Lookout May31, 1865. There is a report that he had been captured on an
earlier occasion and released but no details.

He was known to have great knowledge of Eastern Carolina and natural ability as a
woodsman. He had been engaged in surveying and mapping of roads for the
Confederate Army and was invaluable to the Army. The surveying tools he used in
the Army are in possession of his descendants, the Joseph C, Shepard family, in
Wilmington, N.C..

When Captain Foy was released from prison he returned to his plantation in
Cumberland County, N.C. but had little money to operate the plantation. He decided
to seek a better life in the West. He left North Carolina with his family and settled
in Sweetwater, Texas where he later died August 14, 1910.

You can see his line of Foys in a chart on page 16 of Chapter 15 and there are
photographs of him in the Sweetwater museum.

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