Charles Robert Coster

             OBITUARY.
         CHARLES ROBERT COSTER.
   Col. Charles Robert Coster died suddenly
of angina pectoris Sunday night. Shortly before
10 o'clock he left his residence, 103 West
Seventy-first-street, for a walk. He had hardly
closed the door when his dog attempted to
settle old scores with a neighbor's dog, and in
the excitement of an attempt at separating
them, Col. Coster was stricken. He died soon
afterward at the Presbyterian Hospital, Seven-
tieth-street.
 Col. Coster was the son of John H. Coster, and
was born in this city Dec. 23, 1839. He had
hardly begun a business life when the war broke
out, and young Coster went to Washington as a
private in the Tenth Company of the Seventh
Regiment. On his return he was at once ap-
pointed to a Lieutenancy in the First Battalion,
Twelfth Infantry, then recruiting at Fort
Hamilton, and with this regiment he served
through the first Peninsular campaign. At
Gaines's Mill he was severely wounded. Shortly
afterward he resigned his office in the regular
army to accept the Colonelcy of the One Hun-
dred and Thirty-fourth New-York Volunteers,
offered him by Gov. Morgan, and served with
this regiment till very near the close of the war.
 His military record was brilliant at Gettys-
burg, Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness. He
was 22 years of age when his brigade comman-
der was killed, and he commanded the brigade
himself in Howard's Corps on Cemetery Ridge.
Obtaining leave of absence he came home, and
was married to a daughter of Augustus J.
James of Albany. A Brigadier's commission
awaited his return but his young wife objected
so strongly to his rejoining the army that he
resigned his commission. He was later made
Provost Marshal in this city. Under President
Grant he served two terms as Collector of In-
ternal Revenue, and under Hayes and Arthur
he was pension agent. In his civil offices he
served as efficiently as in military affairs. For
several years he had nbeen a member of the
Real Estate Exchange. He leaves a widow and
four children. George Washington Post, G.A.
R., of which Col. Coster was a member, will at-
tend the funeral in a body, at his late residence,
Wednesday, at 10 A.M.