 | William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1882 - 430 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... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 pages
...sons who have died gloriously on the field of 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 refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1884 - 748 pages
...Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of fivesons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I...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... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 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...must be any words of mine, which should attempt to be given you from a loss so overwhelming.^ But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolations... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - United States - 1886 - 928 pages
...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...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... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - United States - 1887 - 252 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 can not refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - United States - 1887 - 736 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...gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak nnd fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss... | |
 | Commercial correspondence - 1889 - 160 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 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... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1889 - 470 pages
...Department, a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons, who died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how...words of mine, which should attempt to beguile you of the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that... | |
 | Albert Shaw - American literature - 1909 - 970 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... | |
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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... 
