 | Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Gerber - 1994 - 312 páginas
...have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachuetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died...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... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 páginas
...expressed that feeling in a beautiful letter to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, a Boston widow who, he was told, was "the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle." "I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement," he wrote her, "and leave... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Louise Bachelder - 1997 - 76 páginas
...expect it. ... 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...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... | |
 | J. G. Randall, Richard N. Current, Richard Nelson Current - 1999 - 460 páginas
...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... | |
 | Daniel Kilham Dodge - 2000 - 84 páginas
...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...feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine 'Reminiscences, 428. Compare Lincoln's statement to Brooks: " ' I do generally remember a good story... | |
 | 1910 - 538 páginas
...Lincoln wrote, "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... | |
 | David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 páginas
...missives. "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...who 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... | |
 | Robert A. Fletcher, Robert B. Fletcher - 2002 - 156 páginas
...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...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... | |
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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... 
