 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 338 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Baldwin - Heroes - 1907 - 312 pages
...such examples: — " DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement that you are the mother of five sons who have died...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... | |
 | Memorial Day - 1907 - 78 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...to a Boston woman who had lost five sons in the war. " I feel how weak and fruitless," he wrote, " must be any words of mine which should attempt to...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 - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 410 pages
...the war.) l have been shown, ln the flies 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. l feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - English language - 1908 - 120 pages
...DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the AdjutantGeneral of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons...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... | |
 | 1908 - 102 pages
...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...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from 63 tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1925 - 478 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Waldo Warder Braden - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 278 pages
...of Boston: I have been shown on the file of the War Department a statement of the adjutant general of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five...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... | |
 | Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...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...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... 
