Later Life
After Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1865, Foote returned to the US and settled in Washington, D.C. He practiced law and joined the Republican Party.
He published two memoirs, War of the Rebellion (1866), written mostly during his time in London, and the later Casket of Reminiscences (1874). He also compiled and published The Bench and Bar of the South and Southwest (1876), a history of the law in the region.
Appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes as superintendent of the New Orleans Mint, Foote served there from 1878 to 1880. He returned to Nashville, where he died that year. He was interred in his wife's Mt. Olivet Cemetery plot in an unmarked grave.
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