 | 1900 - 484 pages
...Boston: "Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21st, 1864. "Dear Madam— "I have been shown in the fiies of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot... | |
 | George Washington Colman - 1865 - 20 pages
...President of the United States, Nov. 21, 1864, was received by Mrs. Bixby, a poor widow in Boston: "Dear Madam, — I have been shown in the files of...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 864 pages
...lying severely wounded at the time in the hospital : — EXECUTIVE MAKSION, WASHINGI-OUT, November 21, DEAR MADAM: — I have been shown in the files of...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...wounded at the time in the hospital : — KXKCUTITX MAKUOH, WABHIKOTOX, .\ ••!•''•:• 21, 1 - M. DEAR MADAM: — I have been shown in the files of...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...MADAM — I have been shown, ic *he files of the War Department, a statement of the Adjutant-ueneral of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine, which should attempt to bcguilu you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...MADAM — I have been shown, ic the files of the War Department, a statement of the Adjutant-ueneral of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine, which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that yon are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously...field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must bo any words of mine which-should attempt to beguile you^rom the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...extreme, he found time to write the following tetter: " EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864, "Dear Madam: — I have been shown, in the files of...battle.. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But 3 cannot... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1866 - 780 pages
...Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss ~o overwhelming. But I cannot... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot... | |
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DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words... 
