 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...  An American Bible - Page 112edited by - 1918 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Dixon (Jr.) - 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...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they... | |
 | Thomas Dixon - 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...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...beguile you from the grief of a loss so over-whelming. Pint I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the... | |
 | Henry Watterson - 1906 - 536 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...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Paul McClelland Angle, Earl Schenck Miers - 1992 - 692 pages
...Boston Transcript, appealed to the heart of the nation. Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. 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... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...B. Hill, rev. and enl. ed., ed. LF Powell, entry for September 19, 1777, vol. 3, p. 167 (1934). 370 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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