 | Stig Förster, Jorg Nagler - History - 2002 - 724 pages
...republics when one looks at the monuments. Two Nations: TheThird Republic and the United States of America I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement . . . that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. ... I cannot... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Reference - 2003 - 434 pages
...of condolence: Executive Mansion, Washington November 21, 1864 Mrs. Bixby Boston, Massachusetts Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
 | V. Neil Wyrick - Christian life - 2004 - 132 pages
...personally wrote to parents whose boys would no longer be coming home. "Dear Madam, I have been shown.. .that you are the mother of five sons who have died...beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.... I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement. . . Yours, very sincerely... | |
 | Partha Sarathi Bose - Leadership - 2003 - 324 pages
...reminiscent of Lincoln's sensitive condolences to the mother of several boys lost in the Civil War: "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of...beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming." In the weeks after September n he urged New Yorkers to pick up the thread that constituted their lives:... | |
 | Pete Mitchell, Bill Perkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 386 pages
...words are timeless, they are intended for you also: "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. I pray that the Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the... | |
 | Joe Nickell - Social Science - 2005 - 198 pages
...widely, the letter reads: Executive Mansion, Washington. Nov. 21,1 864. To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass. Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War department...five sons who have died gloriously on the field of batde. I feel how weak and fruidess must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...in letters to the bereaved. Lincoln wrote to Mrs. Bixby, a Boston widow, who had lost five sons in battle: I feel how weak and fruitless must be any...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - Character - 2005 - 470 pages
...and point them to the Heavenly Father. To a mother who had lost five sons in battle, Lincoln wrote, "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
 | John Channing Briggs - History - 2005 - 396 pages
...for its revealing and moving adaptation of several of the master tropes of Lincoln's speeches. 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - American letters - 2006 - 292 pages
...so fortunate in expression as this." LETTER TO MRS. BIXBY Executive Mansion November 2 1,1 864 D EAR MADAM: I have been shown in the files of the War Department...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 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... 
