# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-g-foster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:12:44.247Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-g-foster"
name: "John G. Foster"
slug: "john-g-foster"
description: "John Gray Foster was an American soldier. A career military officer in the United States Army and a Union general during the American Civil War, he served in North and South Carolina during the war. A reconstruction era expert in underwater demolition, he wrote a treatise on the subject in 1869. He continued with the Army after the war, using his expertise as assistant to the chief engineer in Washington, DC and at a post on Lake Erie."
tagline: "Union army general (1823–1874)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_G._Foster_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1823-05-27"
deathDate: "1874-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.04
  momentum:             0.6516290726817042
  historical:           5.0153
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A._%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "جون جي. فوستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Foster"
    title: "John G. Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gray_Foster"
    title: "John Gray Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Foster"
    title: "John G. Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Фостер, Джон Грей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q782549"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump