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Mention has been made of the killing of Lieutenant James D. Foster, of Company B, in the first engagement of the Regiment on Saturday afternoon. As a matter of fact, it was not known certainly as to his fate for some days afterward. No one saw him fall, or knew certainlv that he was killed. For a time there was a lingering hope that he might turn up among the wounded and missing. But he was never seen or heard of afterward, and it is evident that he died unknown, and has an unknown grave somewhere on the field of Chickamauga, if, indeed, his body was honored with sepulture at all.

Lieutenant Foster was a most genial man, and a very popular officer. He was always cheerful, and usually of a very quiet demeanor. His home was in Fort Branch, Indiana, and he was among the first citizens of his town to tender his services, and his lite, if need be, in sustaining the Government. Through his influence, many of the boys and young men of his acquaintance were induced to enter the army. He always had a kindly, watchful oversight of these boys,
and they are indebted to him for much good counsel and advice. He was an earnest Christian man, as well as a brave and unselfish patriot. With him, to know a duty, either to his fellow man, his country or his God, was to do that duty, so far as he was able. The loss of such a man as Lieutenant James D. Foster to our Regiment was irreparable. But to him what a wondrous change from the horrid scenes of Chickamauga's bloody battlefield, to the realms of bliss and everlasting peace, on Heaven's bright shore.