 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
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 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... | |
 | Waldo Warder Braden - 1990 - 278 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...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... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 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... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 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... | |
 | William Gerber - 1994 - 312 pages
...General of Massachuetts 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...attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks... | |
 | Louise Bachelder - 1997 - 76 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 C. Davis - 1999 - 330 pages
...of his most perfect creations: I know how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which shall attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so...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... | |
 | J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - 1999 - 460 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... | |
 | Daniel Kilham Dodge - 2000 - 84 pages
...original; I am onlv a retail dealer.' " Harper, XXXL, 228. -Herndon, 313. which should attempt to begu1le you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But...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... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 pages
...have died gloriously on the field of battle," Lincoln wrote Mrs. Lydia Bixby of Boston on November 21. "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of...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... | |
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