our letter.

"The Twenty-sixth Ohio was a fighting regiment, and its grand record
at Chickamauga has given it a foremost place in the heroic annals of
the war. The figures for its loss on that field tell better than any
high flown rhetoric of the desperate stand made by that gallant
little battalion. Will attempt no compliments here, for I have no
words which can add anything to the mute record of the figures which
I have already recorded in connection with its name.

"Perhaps your old comrades of the Twenty-sixth may be interested to
know how the other regiments of their division fared on that hard
fought field. I enclose a memorandum of the casualties in General
Wood's division, and have added the figures for the number which each
regiment carried into the fight. These figures indicate that the
hottest fire along the line was concentrated on the position held by
the Twenty-sixth Ohio. If any other regiment faced a hotter fire, it
must have been from behind breastworks or some equivalent protection.

"I think the losses in Wood's division were still larger than these
percentages indicate, for the number present seems to have been taken
from the morning report, and so includes the non-combatants, together
with others who, although borne on the morning report as present for
duty, never carried a musket. I see that the Eighth Indiana battery
reported 134 present, but I never saw a battery take that many men
into action. And the Eighth Indiana had been knocking around a good
deal before it reached Chickamauga.

"Well, those were heavy losses, but they saved the day. I know there
are many who call Chickamauga a Confederate victory, and the Johnnies
fought hard enough to entitle them to one. But those two armies
marched out for a prize. That prize was Chattanooga. 'You'uns' won
it, and held it. 'They'uns' lost it.

"I hope your regimental reunion will be a pleasant one, and that your
reunions may be well attended for many years to come. With kind
regards for all old comrades of the Army of the Cumberland (for my
regiment served in the Army of the Cumberland part of the time), I
remain

"Yours in F., C. and L.,

WILLIAM F. FOX."

The author makes no claim to being a writer or in any way qualified to
prepare a historic sketch of this character for