 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...  Lincoln's Own Stories - Page 204edited by - 1912 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...by 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...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... | |
 | Charity Dye - Letter writing - 1903 - 248 pages
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO A MOTHER WHO HAD LOST FIVE SONS IN THE CIVIL WAB Nov. 21 '64. Mrs. Bixby, Boston. 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 can not refrain from tendering to you the consolation that... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...by 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...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... | |
 | Charity Dye - Letter writing - 1903 - 248 pages
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN TO A MOTHER WHO HAD LOST FIVE SONS IN THE CIVIL WAR Nov. 21 '64. Mrs. Bixby, Boston. Dear Madam : — I have been shown in the files of...of mine which should attempt to- beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I can not refrain from tendering to you the consolation that... | |
 | Alice Woodworth Cooley, William Franklin Webster - English language - 1903 - 456 pages
...the purest English and most elegant diction extant. Write the letter from dictation. Make no mistake. DEAR MADAM, — I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you were the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on... | |
 | James Baldwin - Diligence - 1904 - 298 pages
...was his soul. The following letter, written to a stricken mother whom he did not know, is one: — " 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 gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1905 - 428 pages
...following letter to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston, a poor widow who had lost five sons killed in battle. My Dear Madam : I have been shown in the files of the...overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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