 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 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... | |
 | Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...Ryan, you've heard this letter gravely read to a backdrop of stirring music: Dear Madam, I have just 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... | |
 | Richard Lederer - Humor - 2009 - 156 pages
...War, Lincoln could still find time, on November 21, 1864, to write this letter to Lydia Bixby: "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... | |
 | Edward SteersJr. - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 283 pages
...Transcript the same day: Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864 To Mrs Bixby, Boston, Mass. 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... | |
 | Timothy Rasinski, Lorraine Griffith - Education - 2008 - 128 pages
...Bixby, 1864 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... | |
 | Ross Nicholson - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 200 pages
...Madani,-- I have been shown in the flies 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 word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot... | |
 | Editors of the American Heritage Di - Reference - 2008 - 131 pages
...Reason, 2004 l have been shown in the files of the War 0epartment 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. l feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...does not diminish the beautiful expression of sympathy. November 21, 1864 To Mrs. Lydia Bixby 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... | |
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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... 
