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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... "
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time - Page 111
edited by - 1886 - 668 pages
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The North American Review, Volume 170, Issues 4-6

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...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation which...
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State ...

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...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to yon the consolation that...
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Assassination of the President: A Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln

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...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that...
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State ...

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...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ...

Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...Last Annual Message. recently wounded, was lying in a hospital, and bears date November 21st, 1864. " DEAR MADAM : — I have been shown in the files 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 overwhelming ; but I...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ...

Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...but Annual Mftange. recently wounded, was lying in a hospital, and bears date November 21st, 1864. " DEAR MADAM : — I have been shown in the files 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 overwhelming ; but I...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

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...of mine, which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I can not refrain from tendering to you the consolation that...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and ...

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...must be any words of mine, which should attempt to bcguilu you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I can not refrain from tendering to you the...
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The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State ...

Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 886 pages
...wounded at the time in the hospital:— Ki«cunv« MANSION, WiSuiseTOn, Ifowmbtr n, IStt DEAK MAJ>AM :—I have been shown in the files of the War Department...statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that yon are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and...
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Life of Abraham Lincoln

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...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But 3 cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that...
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