 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...  Abraham Lincoln: With Twenty-four Illustrations - Page 49by William Eleroy Curtis - 1902 - 397 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Allen Rogers Benham - American letters - 1905 - 176 pages
...to Mrs. Bixby Executive Mansion, Washington, November 21, 1864. MRS. BIXBY, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS : DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the...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... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry, Henry William Elson - 1905 - 372 pages
...whose sons had fallen in battle : " EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, " November 21, 1864. "MRS. BIXBY, " DEAR MADAM : " I have been shown in the files of the...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... | |
 | Gustav Stickley - Architecture, Domestic - 1905 - 958 pages
...Three more extracts must be made. The first shows the tenderness of his heart and reveals the real man: "Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the...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... | |
 | Thomas Dixon - African Americans - 1905 - 442 pages
...sons in the war. Over and over she read its sentences until they echoed as solemn music in her soul: "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may... | |
 | Thomas Dixon (Jr.) - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1905 - 424 pages
...sons in the war. Over and over she read its sentences until they echoed as solemn music in her soul: "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - American literature - 1905 - 472 pages
...sons, who were killed in battle or suffered the worse death, that from disease. The letter follows: 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 in... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - American literature - 1905 - 504 pages
...sons, who were killed in battle or suffered the worse death, that from disease. The letter follows: 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 in... | |
 | American literature - 1905 - 494 pages
...sons, who were killed in battle or suffered the worse death, that from disease. The letter follows: "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 in... | |
 | Education - 1906 - 828 pages
...MRS. BIXBY. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, November 21, 1864. . Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts: DEAR MADAM — I have been shown in the files of the...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so over-whelming. Pint I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 256 pages
...Pride of Patriotic Sacrifice. Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. MRS. BIXBY, Boston, Mass. 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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