 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.  Bar Briefs - Page 631924Full view - About this book
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - English letters - 1910 - 338 pages
...mother -Qy -Cv *o EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON November 21, 1864 Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts. 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 1 This is the name of another officer... | |
 | George Washington - 1910 - 156 pages
...quality in tone, spirit, and perfect expression, is the following letter to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston: 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... | |
 | Wilmot Brookings Mitchell - 1910 - 60 pages
...expressed than in these words ? 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... | |
 | Presidents - 1910 - 178 pages
...extreme, he found time to write the following letter: "Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. "Dear Madam: — I have been shown, in the files of the War Department, a statement by the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are Lincoln in 1860 the mother of five sons who... | |
 | The Lake English Classics WASHINGTON WEBSTER AND LINCOLN - 1910 - 158 pages
...tone, spirit, and perfect expression, is the following letter to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston: 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... | |
 | Joseph Villiers Denney - 1910 - 348 pages
...tone, spirit, and perfect expression, is the following letter to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston: 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... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Presidents - 1910 - 306 pages
...during the dark days of the war that he wrote this simple letter of sympathy to a bereaved mother : " 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 how weak... | |
 | Edward Thomas Roe - Business - 1911 - 512 pages
...by the authorities of the college. It explains itself. Executive Mansion, Washington Nov. 21. ISM. DEAR MADAM: — I have been shown in the files of...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you Irom th<5 grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot... | |
 | Law - 1923 - 260 pages
...best illustrated in the letter he wrote Mrs. Bixby apon the lose of her five sons in the Civil War. Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the...statement of the AdjutantGeneral of Massachusetts that yon are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1910 - 602 pages
...found than in the letter \vritten by our sweet and kindly martyr President to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston: "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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