 | 1900 - 484 pages
...Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21st, 1864. "Dear Madam— "I have been shown in the fiies 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 of mine... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...bears date November 21st, 1864. " 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 word of mine,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1865 - 866 pages
...WABUIKOTOI, Nottmbtr 21, ISM. 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 of mine... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...bears date November 21st, 1864 " 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 word of mine,... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...••!•''•:• 21, 1 - M. 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 of mine... | |
 | George Washington Colman - 1865 - 20 pages
...Bixby, a poor widow in Boston: "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 of mine... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...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 word of mine, which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...a statement of the Adjutant-ueneral 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 of mine, which should attempt to beguihs you from the grief of a loss so... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...a statement of the Adjutant-ueneral 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 of mine, which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...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 of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so... | |
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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... 
