 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...  Junior High School Literature ... - Page 416by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1920Full view - About this book
 | James Baldwin - 1907 - 316 pages
...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 and fruitless must be any...consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 338 pages
...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...consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...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...consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and... | |
 | Henry Bryan Binns - 1907 - 428 pages
...to a Boston woman who had lost five sons in the war. " I feel how weak and fruitless," he wrote, " must be any words of mine which should attempt to...consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wade, Emma Sylvester - 1908 - 360 pages
...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...consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and... | |
 | Frances Melville Perry - 1908 - 120 pages
...AdjutantGeneral 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...consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and... | |
 | Charles Lane Hanson - 1908 - 264 pages
...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...consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1908 - 304 pages
...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...consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Eepublic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement,... | |
 | Francis Grant Blair - 1908 - 80 pages
...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...consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Eepublic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement,... | |
 | James Morgan - 1908 - 510 pages
...condolence that a hand ever was inspired to write: — "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the...consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. " I pray our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavements and leave... | |
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