 | Joseph Hodges Choate - 1901 - 48 pages
...of the War Department a statement that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously 011 the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from your grief for a loss so overwhelming — but I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation... | |
 | Education - 1901 - 714 pages
...university halls as a specimen of the purest English and the most elegant diction» extant : — "DEAR MADAM : — I have been shown in the files of the...of the adjutant-general of Massachusetts, that you were the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the battle field. I feel how weak and fruitless... | |
 | Automobiles - 1918 - 314 pages
...joined the street beggars in DelmenhorsOldenburg, to get a living. World Democracy Linroln's Letter 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... | |
 | Bookbinding - 1900 - 282 pages
...when the angel of death had visited almost every household in the land, and was hovering over himself. 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 feel 206 how... | |
 | William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 482 pages
...letter to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston, who, it was then supposed, had given five sons to her country: " DEAR MADAM :—I have been shown, in the files of the War...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1902 - 404 pages
...needed for a definite understanding of the thoughts as they come along in orderly succession. 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... | |
 | Henry T. Loomis - English language - 1902 - 284 pages
...Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts. It ran thus : Executive Mansion, Washington, November 21, 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... | |
 | Henry T. Loomis - English language - 1902 - 284 pages
...Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts. It ran thus : Executive Mansion, Washington, November 21, 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...free government and the rights of humanity. [Letter to Mrs. Bixby, Washington, 21 November 1864.] 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...free government and the rights of humanity. [Letter to Mrs. Bixby, Washington, 21 November 1864.] 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... | |
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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... 
